The Complete Poems Of San Juan De La Cruz

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571319609

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The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz by Anonim Pdf

In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative poems inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs—and, the story goes, a popular love song overheard from his cramped cell—that take God as the beloved. Erotically charged, initially scandalous, his mystical poetry engages with the journey of the soul through the darkest trenches of suffering and despair toward an enlightened spiritual connection with God. For hundreds of years, these poems have resonated deeply with those who search for meaning in the dark, and have influenced generations of poets, artists, and philosophers. This bilingual edition of the Complete Poems—including “Dark Night” and both the Sanlúcar and Jaén manuscripts of “Spiritual Canticle”—presents an intimate and exceptionally collaborative new translation from María Baranda and Paul Hoover. Baranda, one of the most distinguished Mexican poets of her generation, lends her deft hand with expansive, meditative poetry. Hoover—the accomplished American poet, editor, and translator—offers his dexterity with form and the possibilities of language. The product is uniquely faithful to image and idea, and loyal to the ecstatic lyricism of this canonical text. A volume that hums with the soul’s longing to find solace, The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz is a collection to be treasured.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0226401111

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The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross Pdf

San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art. This dual-language edition makes available the original Spanish from the Codex of Sanlúcon de Barrameda with facing English translations. The work concludes with two essays—a critique of the poetry and a short piece on the Spanish text that appears alongside the translation—as well as brief notes on the individual poems.

Author : Margaret Wilson
Publisher : Foyles
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014738788

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Poems [de] San Juan de la CRuz by Margaret Wilson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811225243

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The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Anonim Pdf

Saint John’s poetry of love and joy describes the soul’s passage through dark night to final illumination in mystical union with Absolute Being. The allegory the poet uses is that of earthly love, and the poems are strikingly effective on the immediate level of personal experience, quite apart from their theological meanings. Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the Indiana University Press. Most of these poems were written during a period of nine months, in 1577-78, when Saint John (San Juan de la Cruz) was imprisoned and tortured in the dungeon of a small Carmelite monastery in Toledo, and their recurrent motifs are both metaphysical and deeply personal.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Spanish poetry
ISBN : 0811204499

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The Poems of Saint John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross Pdf

Author : Kathleen Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441155351

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Poems of St. John of the Cross by Kathleen Jones Pdf

The first complete English translation in 40 years. St John of the Cross is the supreme poet of the mystical tradition in Christianity. His poems are, quite simply, the most concise and beautiful expression of the experience of the love of God in Western literature. They are also the inspiration for his great prose works, which are extended commentaries on the poems. Many of these stem from his imprisonment in Toledo in 1577-8, from which he had a dramatic escape, taking refuge in a 'Discalced' (barefoot) Carmelite convent, where he apparently dictated poems from a notebook he had managed to bring out of prison. John was a man of his time and loved the literature, courtly and popular, of his age. Many of his poems reflect this in their imagery and metre. Others draw their inspiration from the Song of Songs in the Bible. So images of human love and nature make his poems readily accessible on an obvious level. But the 'divine' intention is always there, and this is the quality Kathleen Jones has sought to bring out in her translation: 'Considerations of rhyme and metre have been treated as secondary to the importance of precise theological expression, and of conveying something of the lyricism and spiritual power of the original.' Her main purpose is devotional, but her translation is a pleasure to read. The established Spanish text appears on left-hand pages with the English translation facing.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0877288593

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San Juan de la Cruz by Saint John of the Cross Pdf

St. John (San Juan de la Cruz) is one of the greatest mystics and poets in any language. This is a new introduction and translation of St. John'' poetry (presented in both Spanish and English) and prose commentaries that includes his biography, providing an integrated vision that resurrects the power of his poetic voice.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226401103

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The Poems of St. John of the Cross by Saint John of the Cross Pdf

San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art. This dual-language edition makes available the original Spanish from the Codex of Sanlúcon de Barrameda with facing English translations. The work concludes with two essays--a critique of the poetry and a short piece on the Spanish text that appears alongside the translation--as well as brief notes on the individual poems.

Author : N. Grace Aaron
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0820470953

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Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night by N. Grace Aaron Pdf

Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz's Symbol of Night is a comprehensive appraisal of the traditional critical perspectives of mysticism: philosophical, theological, literary, and psychological. Examining the a priori limitations of these approaches, the book presents an original definition of the symbol as an integral whole of experience and expression, and concludes that night is the form - the organizing principle - of spiritual life.

Author : Colin P. Thompson
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813213304

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St. John of the Cross by Colin P. Thompson Pdf

Looking for connections between his verse and prose, Colin Thompson argues for a theological understanding of the intensely beautiful and moving poems. He seeks to explain the principles that guide St. John in his exploration of the self and its encounter with the divine, and provides an analysis of the poet' most famous symbol - the dark night of the soul."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Louis Daniel Brodsky
Publisher : Time Being Books
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 156809020X

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The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky: Volume One, 1963-1967 by Louis Daniel Brodsky Pdf

As the initial volume of an impressive series comprising the full collection of verse by Louis Daniel Brodsky, this book begins with Brodsky's first poem, written during his final months at Yale, in 1963, and traces the author's maturation into his apprentice years (when he was a young graduate student in English, at Washington University, in St. Louis), presenting the hundreds of poems, prose poems, and short, autobiographical prose works he had composed by June of 1967, when he launched his professional writing career. These pieces serve not only as a measure of Brodsky's evolution as a poet but as a human being, chronicling one man's struggle to find his purpose in life, to make a place for himself in a society often at odds with his own convictions. His hopes, fears, and frustrations permeate the work, revealing the intense inner conflicts he felt compelled to set to paper, from individual matters -- his indecision over vocational goals, his candid experiences with love and rejection, the overwhelming isolation inherent in his academic pursuits -- to more global concerns, especially his acute awareness of the increasing social and political turbulence surrounding him. By grappling with these issues in his writing, he explored passionate emotions, released tension, and, at times, resolved doubts evoked through his introspection. But more important, he used this outpouring to hone his creative skills and develop his personal and professional identity, ultimately creating this tangible record of his travail and his ecstasy, his certitude and his confusion, and, finally, his journey into the heart of the person he would never stop becoming -- a poet.

Author : E.M. Knottenbelt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004483521

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Passionate Intelligence: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill by E.M. Knottenbelt Pdf

Author : Maria Baranda
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300241242

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The New World Written by Maria Baranda Pdf

A lyrical collection of the finest poems by a leading Mexican poet, superbly translated for English readers The poetry of María Baranda is a haunting homage to the natural world, transcendent in scope, attentive to the particular, and acutely attuned to the mystery of being. Absorbed by nature's otherness, Baranda seeks to inhabit the voices of the wind, of wings, night, day, and perhaps most keenly, water. These lyrical verses turn repeatedly to the longings and griefs of embodiment: "What is that God / To be praised with all our sadness / If not love / Or at least the wonder / Of being a body full of blood," Baranda asks. Drawing on epics such as the Aeneid and Beowulf, the mystical verses of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and writers who engage the landscape of shore and sea, from Daniel Defoe to Dylan Thomas, this sweeping collection brings together the finest poems of one of today's most powerful and innovative Mexican writers.

Author : Garcilaso de la Vega
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226141893

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Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega by Garcilaso de la Vega Pdf

Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1501–36), a Castilian nobleman and soldier at the court of Charles V, lived a short but glamorous life. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish, he is credited with beginning the golden age of Spanish poetry. Known for his sonnets and pastorals, gracefully depicting beauty and love while soberly accepting their passing, he is shown here also as a calm student of love’s psychology and a critic of the savagery of war. This bilingual volume is the first in nearly two hundred years to fully represent Garcilaso for an Anglophone readership. In facing-page translations that capture the music and skill of Garcilaso’s verse, John-Dent Young presents the sonnets, songs, elegies, and eclogues that came to influence generations of poets, including San Juan de la Cruz, Luis de Leon, Cervantes, and Góngora. The Selected Poems of Garcilaso de la Vega will help to explain to the English-speaking public this poet’s preeminence in the pantheon of Spanish letters.

Author : David Lehman,Elaine Equi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781982186753

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The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman,Elaine Equi Pdf

Award-winning poet Elaine Equi selects the poems for the 2023 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents some of the year’s most striking and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves offering insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2023 guest editor Elaine Equi, whose own work is “deft, delicate [and] subversive” (August Kleinzahler), has made astute choices representing contemporary poetry at its most dynamic. The result is an exceptionally coherent vision of American poetry today. Including valuable introductory essays contributed by the series and guest editors, the 2023 volume is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series.