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Poems by St John Of The Cross (Paperback, 2000)

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St John of the Cross, the 16th-century Spanish monk, has long been regarded as one of the greatest mystics. These unique poems are published here in parallel text in the original Spanish and in the South African poet Roy Campbell's celebrated English translation.

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The 16th century Spanish Carmelite monk, St. John of the Cross, is not only one of the greatest of all Christian mystics. He is also considered by many to be Spain's finest religious poets His intense and profound poetry, marked by an extraordinary lyrical fervour, reflects his own mystical experiences and his aim to renounce all and surrender himself totally to the love of God. Only then, he believed, could the soul, purified of the taint of the material world, reach a state of grace. The finest English translation of the poems, a work of poetic art in its own right, was made by the South African Roy Campbell (1901 -1957) who succeeded in recreating the extraordinarily subtle music of the original verse and echoing their remarkable blend of sensuality and spirituality. In this bilingual edition the original Spanish poems are published, accompanied by Campbell's translation on facing pages.

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PublisherVintage Publishing

ISBN-139781860465895

eBay Product ID (ePID)88891969

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Book TitlePoems

AuthorSt John of the Cross

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterature

Publication Year2000

Number of Pages1 Pages

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Item Height195mm

Item Width125mm

Item Weight235g

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Title_AuthorSt John of the Cross

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by catakoh
17 Mar, 2021
Just what I wanted
In very good condition and a beautiful translation with an illuminating introduction.
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