His first published collection of poems focused on such themes as nature and isolation, plus religious faith and was published in 1921. Moving to Madrid, he studied whilst in the Residencia de Estudiantes and it was here that he was influenced in his writing by poets and playwrights such as Juan Ramon Jimenez, Eduardo Marquina and Gregorio Martínez Sierra. He had begun to write poetry but he was more drawn towards music and theatre and even trained as a pianist, playing classical music. He never forgot his love of the countryside despite the family moving into the city when he was 11 years old and, at the University of Sacred Heart he studied composition, literature and law. Federico’s artistic side probably came from his mother who worked as a teacher and an accomplished pianist. His father owned both a farm outside of Granada as well as a nice villa within the city. His talents extended to writing plays as well as directing them and he was a part of the famous Generación del 27, a group of artists and writers numbering Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel among its members. Born in 1898, in a little town called Fuente Vaqueros which is not far from the southern Spanish city of Granada, Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca became one of his country’s most celebrated poets.
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