{"product_id":"poems-protest-and-a-dream-9780140447033","title":"Poems Protest and a Dream","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bilingual edition of writings by Latin America''s finest baroque poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, \u003ci\u003eLa Respuesta a Sor Filotea\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1691 in response to her bishop''s injunction against her intellectual pursuits. A passionate and subversive defense of the rights of women to study, to teach, and to write, it predates by almost a century and a half serious writings on any continent about the position and education of women. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso included in this wide-ranging selection is a new translation of Sor Juana''s masterpiece, the epistemological poem Primero Sueno,  as well as revealing autobiographical sonnets, reverential religious poetry, secular love poems (which have excited speculation through three centuries), playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New World culture that are among the earliest writings celebrating the people and the customs of this hemisphere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATOR'S NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA NOTE ON THE TEXT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRESPONSE TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS POETESS SOR FILOTEA DE LA CRUZ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFIRST I DREAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eROMANCES\u003cbr\u003ePrologue to the Reader\u003cbr\u003eIn Reply to a Gentleman from Peru \u003cbr\u003eWhile by Grace I Am Inspired \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREDONDILLAS\u003cbr\u003eA Philosophical Satire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEPIGRAMS\u003cbr\u003eSatiric Reproach\u003cbr\u003eWhich Reveals\u003cbr\u003eA Much-Needed Eyewash\u003cbr\u003eA Bit of Moral Advice\u003cbr\u003eDemonstration to a Sergeant\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDECIMAS \u003cbr\u003eShe Assures that She Will Hold a Secret \u003cbr\u003eAccompanying a Ring\u003cbr\u003eA Modest Gift\u003cbr\u003eShe Describes in Detail\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSONNETS \u003cbr\u003eShe Attempts to Minimize the Praise\u003cbr\u003eShe Laments Her Fortune\u003cbr\u003eBetter Death\u003cbr\u003eSpiritedly, She Considers the Choice\u003cbr\u003eShe Distrusts, as Disguised Cruelty\u003cbr\u003eOne of Five Burlesque Sonnets\u003cbr\u003eShe Answers Suspicions\u003cbr\u003eWhich Recounts How Fantasy Contents Itself\u003cbr\u003eShe Resolves the Question\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVILLANCICO\u003cbr\u003eFragment from \"Santa Catarina\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHEATER, SACRED AND PROFANE\u003cbr\u003eLoa for El Divino Narciso\u003cbr\u003eFragment from Los Empenos de Una Casa \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOTES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524433682775,"sku":"9780140447033","price":14.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140447033.jpg?v=1731856757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poems-protest-and-a-dream-9780140447033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}