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Garcia Lorca's Rejection of Mechanical Civilization.

Federico Garcia Lorca was an established poet when he came to New York in 1929. The purpose of his visit was to pursue studies at Columbia University, but due to an impa­ tience with any language other than Spanish, he soon abandoned the idea of formal study and settled back into his customary role of poet. The year that he spent in and about New York was a posthumous fortune. The fruits of his pen were revealed in the 1940 S6neca edition of Poeta en Nueva York which appeared in Mexico City. Interest in the book continues yearly; unfortunately, no critic has given the volume detailed attention until the present study. Through a systematic, word-by-word, line-by-line explication of the New York poems, the volume demonstrates Lorca's use of themes: Love, Death, and the Negro (primitiv­ ism)— interwoven into an all-encompassing synthesis: rejection of mechanical civilization. It is Lorca's voice in Poeta en Nueva York which warns man that (1) the mechanized civilization and the immediate past are separated; (2) that man has become dehumanized and has lost his identity; (3) that until man achieves a