In one lecture, this author wrote that “the magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with" an inner force called duende (“DWEN-day”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who exemplified duende in his 1933 play about the Bride and Groom, the first play in his Rural Trilogy.
ANSWER: Federico García Lorca (That play is Blood Wedding.)
[10e] Lorca’s lecture discusses the duende of one of these people called Belmonte (“bel-MON-tay”). A Lorca poem is titled for being a “Lament for the Death of” one of these people, who practice a dangerous traditional Spanish sport.
ANSWER: bullfighters [or matadors de toros or toreadors or toreros; accept “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter”]
[10h] Lorca’s lecture refers to the “muse” of this poetic rival of Francisco de Quevedo (“fran-SEEHS-koh day keh-VAY-doh”). The 300th anniversary of this culteranismo poet’s death inspired Lorca to co-found the “Generation of ‘27.”
ANSWER: Luis de Góngora (“loo-EES day GOHN-goh-rah”) [or Luis de Góngora (y Argote)]
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