Was Lorca a Poetic Thinker?

Abstract

Federico García Lorca exemplifies the kind of “poetic thought” characteristic of late modernist poets like José Ángel Valente. Because of the circumstances of Lorca's reception, however, this intellectual lineage has remained in the shadows. This article argues that Lorca's lectures belong to the same genre as the prose writings of Valente, Machado, or Lezama Lima and that therefore late modernist poetics is less exceptional in the Hispanic tradition than it might have seemed.