In the annals of Spanish literature, few figures burn as brightly or cast as haunting a shadow as Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). A poet, playwright, and theatrical director whose life was cut tragically short at the age of 38, Lorca embodied the creative ferment of early 20th-century Spain while giving voice to the deepest currents of human passion, death, and desire. His work, saturated with the rhythms of Andal…
“The duende is not in the throat; the duende climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet.”
Neighbourhood:
Dramatic Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Poet-Musicians
Emotional landscape: Longing, Despair, Sorrow
Ralph Hodgson was born on 9 September 1871 in Darlington, County Durham, and died on 3 November 1962 in Minerva, Ohio. His life traversed an astonishing stretch of history: the late Victorian industrial world, the upheaval of two world wars, the flowering and fragmentation of literary modernism, and the gradual emergence of a more public consciousness about animals and the natural environment. Yet his poetry seems to…
“He was annoyed by my wanting to talk about Black and Tan terriers instead of poetry, but his Black and Tan is poetry.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Tenderness, Joy
