Poems: A Bilingual AnthologyPoetry. Bilingual edition in Spanish and English. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Margaret Sayers Peden, who is well known and respected for her translations of Fuentes, Neruda, Quiroga, and Paz, has made an admirable selection of poems that includes romances, redondillas, epigrams, decimas, sonnets, silvas, villancicos, and two excerpts from Sor Juana's theater. The introduction and notes provide the necessary context for those unfamiliar with the poet's life and times. "Her sprightly English versions of these technically exacting poems...would, I am sure of it, have pleased Sor Juana herself"--Alastair Reid. |
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... Respuesta a Sor Filotea " [ Response to Sor Filotea ] , the first document in our hemisphere to defend a woman's right to teach , to study , and to write . As an intellectual woman in a world in which male dominance and , especially ...
... Respuesta a Sor Filotea " [ Response to Sor Filotea ] , the first document in our hemisphere to defend a woman's right to teach , to study , and to write . As an intellectual woman in a world in which male dominance and , especially ...
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... Respuesta . " The injunctions of the Church , the demands that she devote herself more exclusively to religious duties and put away worldly things , seem to have been oc- casioned as much by jealousy as by true concern for her salvation ...
... Respuesta . " The injunctions of the Church , the demands that she devote herself more exclusively to religious duties and put away worldly things , seem to have been oc- casioned as much by jealousy as by true concern for her salvation ...
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... Respuesta " that many critics have denied . How can one read the devastating epigram about " Dear Leonor " and not hear the icily controlled rage , the rapier thrust of irony in the subtext of the " Respuesta , " the quality that makes ...
... Respuesta " that many critics have denied . How can one read the devastating epigram about " Dear Leonor " and not hear the icily controlled rage , the rapier thrust of irony in the subtext of the " Respuesta , " the quality that makes ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Romances II | 11 |
A Philosophical Satire | 29 |
Copyright | |
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