A number of works have been based on, have been inspired by, or have alluded to the works of Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca.
Poetry
PoetLanguageYearWorkDescriptionPablo NerudaSpanish1934"" ('Ode to Federico García Lorca')A poem written before García Lorca's death by his friend Neruda. Frederick Luis Aldama describes Neruda's narrator as exhibiting "more personalized, even stereotypically bourgeois, form of homosexuality" in his words to García Lorca.Antonio MachadoSpanish1936 ('The crime was in Granada')An elegy written almost immediately after García Lorca's murder and published two months later.Luis CernudaSpanish1937"" ("To a Dead Poet (F.G.L.)")An elegy by a fellow member of the Generation of '27.Miklós RadnótiHungarian1937"Federico García Lorca"A poem.Óscar Castro ZúñigaSpanish1938"" ('Response to García Lorca')A poem memorialising García Lorca. Set to music by Ariel Arancibia on the LP Homenaje a Óscar Castro.Los Cuatro de Chile, Héctor y Humberto Duvauchelle (1970). Homenaje a Óscar Castro Zúñiga: Los Cuatro de Chile, Héctor y Humberto Duvauchelle. Santiago de Chile: ASFONA M.R. Cat Nº VBP-312Nikos KavvadiasGreek1945"Federico García Lorca"A poem connecting García Lorca to contemporary events in both Spain and Greece.Edwin RolfeSpanish1948"To Federico García Lorca" () Spanish Civil War poem that characterizes Lorca as having ″recognized your [his] assassins,″ whom Rolfe derides as ″The men with the patent-leather hats and souls of patent-leather.″Rolfe, Edwin, Cary Nelson, and Jefferson Hendricks. Trees Became Torches: Selected Poems. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Robert CreeleyEnglish1952"After Lorca"A poem.Allen GinsbergEnglish1955"A Supermarket in California"A poem mentioning García Lorca, as well as Walt Whitman. Bob Kaufman English 1956–1963"Lorca" Three poems about García Lorca, published together in the collection The Ancient Rain. In the poem "The Ancient Rain", Kaufman compares Lorca to Crispus Attucks, a man of African and Native American descent who was the first person killed in the American Revolution. 1973–1978"The Ancient Rain""[The Night That Lorca Comes]"Jack SpicerEnglish1957After LorcaA book of poems containing 33 translations of García Lorca poems, 10 of them in fact by Spicer, as well as an introduction ostensibly by Lorca.Nikos EngonopoulosGreek1957"News on the death of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca on 19 August 1936 in the ditch of Camino de la Fuente" ("")A poem described by Demetra Demetriou as showing "a highly ironic temper".Jerome RothenbergRobert KellyRobert Bly English 1961 "Deep image" form A poetic form inspired by García Lorca's "deep song".Yevgeni YevtushenkoRussian1969"When They Murdered Lorca" ()An elegy that Lynn Purkey compares to "El crimen fue en Granada", highlighting its political overtones. It portrays Lorca as being akin to Don Quixote—an immortal symbol of one's devotion to his ideals and perpetual struggle for them.Harold NorseEnglish1973"We Bumped Off Your Friend the Poet"Inspired by a review of Ian Gibson's Death of Lorca. The poem first appeared in Hotel Nirvana,Hotel Nirvana, San Francisco, City Lights (1974) and later in In the Hub of the Fiery Force, Collected Poems of Harold Norse 1934–2003.In the Hub of the Fiery Force, Collected Poems of Harold Norse 1934–2003, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (2003) Thanh ThảoVietnamese1985"The Guitar of Lorca" ()A poem expressing Thanh Thảo's admiration for García Lorca. Set to music by Thanh Tùng.
Novels
AuthorLanguageYearWorkDescriptionCarlos Rojas Vila,Edith Grossman (Translator)SpanishEnglish (Translated)1980, 2013 (Translation)El Ingenioso Hidalgo y Poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos (The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell)A novel in which Lorca reviewing the events of his life, his death and possible futures from a spiral of theatres he understands to be hell. Giannina BraschiEnglishSpanishSpanglish1998Yo-Yo Boing!A novel featuring a dinner party debate among Latin American poets and artists about Lorca's genius compared to other Spanish language poets.Nicole KraussEnglish2010Great HouseA novel about four owners of a desk allegedly once owned by García Lorca. Ben PastorEnglish2019The Horseman's SongA novel centered on the investigation into Garcia Lorca's murder.
Musical works
AuthorLanguageYearWorkDescriptionFrancis Poulenc(instrumental)(program notes in French)1943Violin Sonata () Dedicated to Lorca's memory, and programmatically quoting (in French) the first line of his poem "The Six Strings" (): "The guitar makes dreams cry" at the start of the second movement, Intermezzo.Spanish1947"" ()Three vocal pieces. Poulenc expressed frustration at what he felt was an inability to channel García Lorca in both the chansons and the Sonata. Heitor Villa-Lobos Spanish1956Yerma Opera based on the original Spanish text of Lorca's play. The opera was premiered at the Santa Fe Opera in 1971.Camarón de la IslaSpanish1979La Leyenda del TiempoAlbum with lyrics written by or based on works by Lorca.Silvestre Revueltas(instrumental)1937Homenaje a Federico García LorcaThree-movement work for chamber orchestra composed shortly after García Lorca's death.Mario Castelnuovo-TedescoSpanish1951Romencero Gitano for Mixed Choir and Guitar, Op. 152Seven-movement piece for soloists, choir, and guitar, based on poems from Poema del Cante Jondo.Luigi NonoSpanish1951–1953Tre epitaffi per Federico García Lorca () "España en el corazón" () "Y su sangre ya viene cantando" ()