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

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.

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.

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 (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."

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

Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others. Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season.

These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. In this volume they are translated into the idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. Some of them are rooted in Renaissance courtly conventions; others are startlingly ahead of their time, seemingly modern in the naked power of the complex sexual feelings they address.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) fue una religiosa y escritora mexicana, exponente del Siglo de Oro de la literatura en espanol. Cultivo la lirica, el auto sacramental, el teatro y la prosa. Por la importancia de su obra, recibio los sobrenombres de el Fenix de America, la Decima Musa o la Decima Musa mexicana.

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.