“In Your Name this Death is Holy”: Federico García Lorca in the Works of Modern Arab Poets

The purpose of this article is to explore the image of the renowned Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) as reflected in the writings of several prominent modern Arab poets. This article will attempt to demonstrate how Lorca’s images and writings exercised a towering influence on Arab poets primarily during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and continues to influence contemporary modernist Arab poets in various ways.