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San Juan de la Cruz: poesía y prosas
The 16th-century friar known as St. John is a preeminent Spanish literary figure as well as one of the world's great mystical poets. This new edition of his works of spiritual guidance modernizes the original text while retaining itsrhetorical grandeur. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum....more
207 pages
Published
1982
by Alianza Editorial
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I was sad about this. It opens up with San Juan de la Cruz's heart-rending, sensual devotional poetry, that makes you wonder about the asceticism of this man, that makes you burn up with desire as he did... only to follow with pious, apologetic prose explications of the poems, promoting mortification of the senses which he dances within in his verse, the belittlement of the self which carries such character in his verse. It actually made me lose faith in humanity for a second, before I realized...more
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John of the Cross (Spanish: Juan de la Cruz), born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest..
Saint John of the Cross was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He is also known for his writings. Both his poetry and his s...more
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Saint John of the Cross was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He is also known for his writings. Both his poetry and his s...more
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