The Sonnets of Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz in English Verse

by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juana Inés de la Cruz

This is a translation of 70 Baroque sonnets by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (c.1648-1695), closely following her Petrarchan (and Spanish) form, syntax and phrasing. Sor Juana was a Mexican nun, known to her contemporaries as the Decima Musa (tenth muse). After a translator's foreword and introduction by Melvin S. Arrington, Jr., facing page translations of the sonnets are grouped by type: philosophical-moral; historical-mythological; satirical-burlesque;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773473386
• ISBN13: 9780773473386
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 155 Pages