Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Subtitle: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: September 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780809140121
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Works by individual poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Religion - Classic Works; Christianity - Theology - History; Religion; Spirituality - General; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; Christianity - Literature; Christian Theology - History; Nuns' writings, Mexican; Theology
First sentence: In 1689, with the publication of the first volume of her collected works, Castalian Inundation, the Mexican nun of the Order of St. Jerome, Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-95) was called "tenth muse," indicating that she, a mere mortal, was like Sappho in antiquity, worthy of the company of the nine goddess of the arts, the muses.1