I’m not a happy poet
John Butt: Lorca, 1 April 1999
Lorca: A Dream of Life
by Leslie Stainton.
Bloomsbury, 568 pp., £20, November 1998,0 7475 4128 0 Show More
by Leslie Stainton.
Bloomsbury, 568 pp., £20, November 1998,
“... In Argentina in 1933, so Leslie Stainton tells us, Lorca ‘began wearing a white linen suit, and frequently a white cotton sailor’s shirt with a V-shaped neck and a dark sash. He took childlike delight in donning the shirt and going to the beach to “awaken” the seashells by calling out to them.’ He was obviously someone to be taken only in tiny doses ... ”