Juana Inés de la Cruz 
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works [EPUB ebook] 

Latin America’s great poet rendered into English by the world’s most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature.

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.

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