The Poems of St. John of the Cross - Couverture souple

St. John Of The Cross, St. John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226401103 ISBN 13 : 9780226401102

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1995

Synopsis

Book by St John of the Cross

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

St John of the Cross was a 16th-century Spanish mystic, Catholic saint and a Carmelite monk, friar and priest. He was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation and is considered one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language.

Roy Campbell, born Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell was born in Durban, Colony of Natal (now in South Africa) 1901. He lived in South Africa, Britain (where he fell in and out with the Bloomsbury Group), Spain and finally Portugal, where he died in 1957. The Flaming Terrapin established his reputation in verse and he was hailed by contemporaries T.S.Eliot and Dylan Thomas as one of the great inter-war poets. In 1952 he was awarded the Foyle Prize for his verse translation of St John of the Cross.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226401103
• ISBN 13: 9780226401102
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 160