Ebook {Epub PDF} A Sor Juana Anthology by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

8 rows · A Sor Juana Anthology. Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz. Harvard University Press, - Author: Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz.  · This is a book of selected poems and other writings by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz who was a nun in the ´s New Spain (now Mexico). I´m not a poem enthusiast so why did I decide to read this book? I had just watched the Netflix show on Sor Juana´s life and wanted to 4/5. A Sor Juana Anthology Paperback – February 1, by Juana Inés de la Cruz (Author), Alan S. Trueblood (Translator), Octavio Paz (Foreword) 0 more out of 5 stars 5 ratings/5(5).

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is a key figure in the history of Latin American literature, not only for her poetry but also for her important prose works Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz and Carta. Un poema abismado y visionario que anticipa el Preludio de Wordsworth, el Kublai Khan de Coleridge o el Hyperion de Keats. El primero de una tradición alucinada que en la poesía mexicana daría poemas memorables como Muerte sin fin de José Gorostiza o Pasado en claro, de Octavio Paz, que escribió un libro imprescindible sobre la Décima Musa: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe. Juana Ines De La Cruz, Born in Nepantla, near Mexico City, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ( or ) is best known as one of the greatest Baroque poets and as the iconi Teresa Of Avila, TERESA OF ÁVILA (), founder of the Discalced Carmelites and a patron saint of Spain.

Overview. Here is a new voice—new to us—reaching across a gap of three hundred years. Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz was acclaimed in her time as “Phoenix of Mexico, America’s Tenth Muse”; a generation later she was forgotten. In our century she was rediscovered, her works were reissued, and she is now considered one of the finest Hispanic poets of the seventeenth century. Doña Inés de Asuaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz OSH (12 November – 17 April ) was a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, and Hieronymite nun. Her merit as a true master of the Spanish Golden Age gained her the nicknames of " The Tenth Muse " or " The Phoenix. La monja evitó hablar de temas teológicos hasta , cuando criticó a un sacerdote jesuita en una carta privada. Esto hizo que, finalmente, el arzobispo le prohibiera continuar escribiendo. Ella murió cinco años después ayudando a los necesitados durante una epidemia en la ciudad. [Firma de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, cortesía de Wikipedia].