Six Romances of the Spanish Civil War and their English Translations by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Abstract

This article presents parallel Spanish–English texts of six poems translated by Sylvia Townsend Warner from their Spanish originals following her attendance at the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture in Spain in 1937. The poems are by Leopoldo Urrutia, Manuel Altolaguirre, Julio D. Guillén, José Herrera Petere, Félix Paredes and Francisco Fuentes. Five of the six first appeared in Romancero general de la guerra de España (1937).

Keywords

• translation
• Spanish Civil War
• Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Federico García Lorca
• Leopoldo Urrutia
• Manuel Altolaguirre