Description
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695)< Mexican Hieronymite nun, enjoyed an international reputation in her lifetime. Her works were published in Mexico and Spain, and were read in Columbia, Peru, and even Sweden. She is considered one of the great lyric poets of the Spanish language and one of the great dramatists of Spain's Golden Age. This book makes available a substancial selection of Sor Juana's religious works in their entirety : religious songs and devotional poetry; her sacramental drama Divine Narcissus; two devotional works, Devotional Exercises for the Feast of the Incarnation and Offerings of Sorrows of Our Lady; a theological disputation, Critique of a Sermon; and her intellectual autobiography, Response to "Sor Philotea."
For the first time, readers interested in the history of spirituality and the history of women in the Christian tradition who do not know Spanish will have access in one volume to a substantial sampling of the work of this supremely gifted woman.