Name: St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry By Gerald Brenan
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St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan

The paperback edition of a very successful and in some ways remarkable book, first published in 1973. Gerald Brenan is well known for his 'expository' works on Spanish history and literature, and now in his eighties he has returned to an early interest in the Spanish mystics to produce an absorbing study of St John of the Cross, one of the foremost of Catholic mystics and poets. The book is perhaps the first in English to combine an objective - but sensitive and lively - account of St John's life with a fresh translation (by Mr Brenan's associate Lynda Nicholson) of his verse.

List of illustrations; Preface; Part I. The Life: 1. Childhood and youth; 2. The Carmelite reform; 3. Prison; 4. El Calvario and Baeza; 5. Granada; 6. Segovia; 7. Disgrace and death; 8. The sequel; Appendices; Part II. The Works: 9. An examination of the poetry; 10. The prose works; Part III. The Poems: 'En una noche oscura': 'The Dark Night'; 'Adonte te escondiste': 'The Spiritual Canticle' (Sanlucar version); 'Oh, llama de amor viva': 'The Living Flame of Love'; 'Quebien se yo la fonte': 'Although by night'; 'Un pastorcico, solo, esta penado': 'A Pastoral'; 'Vivo sin vivir en mi': 'Dying because I do not die'; 'Tras de un amoroso lance': 'A quarry of Love'; 'Entreme donde no supe': 'Verses written on an Ecstasy'; 'Encima de las corrientes': 'Ballad on the Psalm 'By the Waters of Babylon''; 'En el pincipio moraba': 'Ballad on Trinity and the Incarnation'; 'Adonte te escondiste': 'The Spiritual Canticle (Jaen version); notes to the poems; A select bibliography; Principal events in the life of St. John; Index.

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GOR008197931

ISBN 13

9780521099530

ISBN 10

0521099536

Title

St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan

Author

Gerald Brenan

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year published

1975-07-24

Number of pages

250

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St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry Gerald Brenan

St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan

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St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry by Gerald Brenan

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