Notes
1. For a discussion of this problem see Eutimio Martin, ‘¿Existe una versión definitiva de Poeta en Nueva York, de Lorca?’, Ínsula, No. 310 (Setiembre 1972), 1 y 10.
2. Ángel del Río, García Lorca: ‘Poeta en Nueva York’ (Madrid 1958), 35.
3. Federico García Lorca, Obras Completas, 19th ed. (Madrid 1974), vol. 1, 464. All subsequent page references will be to this edition.
4. Gustavo Correa, La poesía mítica de Federico Garcia Lorca (Madrid 1970), 196.
5. I find myself in almost total disagreement with the interpretation of this poem offered by Rupert Allen Jr., ‘Una explicación simbológica de "Iglesia abandonada" de Lorca’, Hispanófila, IX, No. 2 (1966), 33–44.
6. The allusion to the Massacre of the Innocents has been en noted by Carlos Marcial de Onis, El surrealismo y cuatro poetas de la generación del 27 (Madrid 1974), 99.
7. C. Marcilly, ‘Notes pour l'étude de la pensée religieuse de F. García Lorca: Crucifixión’, Mélanges offerts à Marcel Bataillon (Bordeaux 1962), 507–25.
8. Marcilly, op. cit., 512.
9. Marcilly, op. cit., 521–22.
10. The link between this poem and the Concordat has been noted by Marie Laffranque, Les idées esthétiques de Federico García Lorca (Paris 1967), 227n.
11. I should like to acknowledge a great debt for all that I learnt from 1964 to 1966 while attending the seminar on Poeta en Nueva York organized by Professor, John Varey of Westfield College, London.