The Poems of St John of the Cross: Midway Reprints - Couverture souple

John Of The Cross St

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226401111 ISBN 13 : 9780226401119

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

Book by St John of the Cross

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

St. John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes in 1542, in a small village in Spain. In his youth he met the Carmelite nun Teresa of Avila, and joined her monastic reform movement. He dedicated the rest of his life to founding and administering monasteries and to works of charity. His writing, which began in prison when he was held captive by monks hostile to the reform movement, earned him the reputation as the greatest poet in the Christian mystical tradition, and led to his canonization. In poems of astonishing clarity he evokes a vision of a world filled with beauty, radiant with the love of God, ecstatic in its purity. St. John is revered by readers of spirituality, for his words-which compare with the Psalms of David and the works of the Sufi poet Rumi-resonate with inspiration and rich imagery. This edition offers a dual Spanish/English text, and is accompanied by black-and-white illustrations based on famous Spanish paintings of the Renaissance.

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226401111
• ISBN 13: 9780226401119
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Nims John Frederick