Selected works / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ; translated by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Julia Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695.

Contributor:

Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023, translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695. Poems--Selections.

Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Spanish poetry--Translations into English.

Spanish poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 216 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Language Note:

Translated to English from Spanish.

Summary:

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651 - 1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. The volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works, including "First Dream", which showcases her prodigious intellect and range and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist defence of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works are also included.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393241754

0393241750

OCLC:

882464424