Sonnets of Sor Juana InÉs De La Cruz in English Verse
| Author: | de la Cruz, Sor | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Pages: | 172 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-7338-6 978-0-7734-7338-6 | |
| Price: | $159.95 + shipping | |
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ranslation of seventy Baroque sonnets by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (c. 1648-1695), closely following her Petrarchan (and Spanish) form, syntax and phrasing. Sor Juana was a Mexican nun, known to her contemporaries as the Décima Musa (Tenth Muse). After a Translator’s Foreword and Introduction by Melvin S. Arrington, Jr., facing page translations of the sonnets are grouped by type: Philosophical-Moral; Historical-Mythological; Satirical-Burlesque; Love and Wit; Homages of Court, Friendship, or Letters; Religious.