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Federico García Lorca

The Spanish poet and dramatist García Lorca was born on June 5, 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, a small town to the west of Granada. The poetry, passion, and violence of his work and his own tragic and bloody death

Hour of Stars

by Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

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The silence of the night

on the staff

of the infinite.

I go out into the street naked
ripe with poems
lost.
The black, riddled
by cricket song,
has this will-o'-the-wisp

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June 5

Frederico Garcia Lorca born, 1898

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

In Manchester, England, in 1819, cavalry charged into a crowd that had gathered to protest for parliamentary reform and the repeal of the corn laws. 11people were killed and 500 were wounded in what was called the Peterloo Massacre. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a poem about it: what was the poem?

Answer

"The Mask of Anarchy."

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