Lorca’s Romancero gitano – A Ballad Translation and Critical Study –

“When the Romancero gitano, or Gypsy Ballad-book, first appeared in 1928, it made Federico García Lorca the most popular poet of his generation, and the book itself has become one of te classics of twentieth-century poetry.

This new translation, by a scholar and translator with a marvelous ear for poetry, presents Lorca’s eighteen ballads in the original Spanish, accompanied by an accurate and yet forceful and musical rendering into English.

Carl Cobb’s illuminating commentary on each of the ballads probes the psychological significance of Lorca’s themes and offers reasons for his enduring appeal. …”