Edith Grossman's acclaimed translations of The Tenth Muse's best known works are offered here with introductory materials and explanatory footnotes, along with related additional works and eight critical essays.

La presente antologia comprende poemas y cartas de sor Juana Ines de la Cruz que constituyen un relevante panorama del Mexico del siglo XVII.

La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, the most famous prose work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, is a passionate defense of the rights of women to study, teach, and write, and is one of the world’s earliest treatises on these subjects. Also included in this wide-ranging bilingual collection by Latin America’s finest baroque poet is a new translation of her masterpiece, the epistemological poem "Primero Sueño," as well as autobiographical sonnets, religious poetry, secular love poems, playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New World culture.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) was famous in her time as a brilliant intellectual, poet, and playwright and is recognized in our time as an early feminist. Her masterpiece of comic theatre, Los empenos de una casa receives its first

Sor Juana (1651 1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.

This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor are also included."

Juana Ines de la Cruz no es solo la figura intelectual senera del Virreinato de Nueva Espana, es la figura ineludible de la historia literaria e intelectural mexicana, es la mayor poeta y filosofa hispana del periodo colonial, y la autora del maximo poema filosofico de la lengua. Esta edicion critica de El sueno incluye tambien notas y version prosificada del poema, mas la prosa de Juana Ines, sus cartas y su Neptuno alegorico, estudios criticos de Roberto Echavarren, Romina Freschi y Angela Martinez, mas los documentos de la forzada abjuracion de Juana Ines ante las autoridades de la Iglesia Catolica. Juana Ines de la Cruz es la figura imprescindible en relacion a la poesia y la filosofia del barroco americano, asi como en relacion a la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres.

Text in Spanish. El martir del Sacramento es uno de los tres autos sacramentales de sor Juana Ines dela Cruz, junto con El divino Narciso y El cetro de Jose. La presente edicion ofrece eltexto mas fiable hasta la fecha, acompanado de un aparato de notas explicativas y unestudio preliminar que intenta contextualizar el auto en su marco generico y facilitar lacomprension de los lectores de nuestros dias.