Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works. This item is unavailable.Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works

Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual and court favourite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defence-evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson-of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works-playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavour-are also included.

Acclaimed for her best-selling translations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman has received many awards including the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.