St John Of The Cross His Life And Poetry

Author : Gerald Brenan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200066
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry written by Gerald Brenan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877288596
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Juan de la Cruz written by Saint John of the Cross and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. John (San Juan de la Cruz) is one of the greatest mystics and poets in any language. This is a new introduction and translation of St. John'' poetry (presented in both Spanish and English) and prose commentaries that includes his biography, providing an integrated vision that resurrects the power of his poetic voice.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226401102
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of St. John of the Cross written by Saint John of the Cross and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art. This dual-language edition makes available the original Spanish from the Codex of Sanlúcon de Barrameda with facing English translations. The work concludes with two essays--a critique of the poetry and a short piece on the Spanish text that appears alongside the translation--as well as brief notes on the individual poems.

Author : Robert A. Herrera
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802824950
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Music written by Robert A. Herrera and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with a historical essay on the phenomenon of mysticism, Silent Music chronicles St. John's life story - from his humble birth in 1542, through his career as a professional religious, to his death in 1591 - placing the man and his spirituality squarely in their historical-cultural context. Herrera probes the saint's rigorous life of contemplation and his classic writings on such subjects as union with God and the "dark night of the soul," clarifying St. John's understanding of the mystical experience and paying particular attention to the notion of detachment and the recurring motifs of darkness, flame, and ascent in St. John's writings. His careful analysis of St. John's thought is enriched with examples from philosophy, psychology, literature, spirituality, and art - material not usually found in such a study.".

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809128396
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John of the Cross written by Saint John of the Cross and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COPY 2 LOCATED IN STACK.

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry written by Saint John of the Cross and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : St. John of the Cross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627932097
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential St. John of the Cross written by St. John of the Cross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here in this omnibus edition are all three of St. John of the Cross' major works as well as twenty of his magnificent poems. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is the third major work of St. John of the Cross and is considered to be the introductory work on mystical theology. Dark Night of the Soul is one of the greatest religious poems ever written. This masterpiece of Mystic Christianity examines faith and how to keep faith when all seems lost. Think of it as guide to making it through the dark night of the soul to the brighter, happier, faith filled tomorrow that awaits. In A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, St. John states: "I do not purpose here to set forth all that greatness and fullness the spirit of love, which is fruitful, embodies in it. Yes, rather it would be foolishness to think that the language of love and the mystical intelligence - and that is what these stanzas are - can be at all explained in words of any kind, for the Spirit of our Lord who helps our weakness."

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780969987659
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross written by Saint John of the Cross and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saint John of the Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ written by Saint John of the Cross and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144115535X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of St. John of the Cross written by Kathleen Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete English translation in 40 years. St John of the Cross is the supreme poet of the mystical tradition in Christianity. His poems are, quite simply, the most concise and beautiful expression of the experience of the love of God in Western literature. They are also the inspiration for his great prose works, which are extended commentaries on the poems. Many of these stem from his imprisonment in Toledo in 1577-8, from which he had a dramatic escape, taking refuge in a 'Discalced' (barefoot) Carmelite convent, where he apparently dictated poems from a notebook he had managed to bring out of prison. John was a man of his time and loved the literature, courtly and popular, of his age. Many of his poems reflect this in their imagery and metre. Others draw their inspiration from the Song of Songs in the Bible. So images of human love and nature make his poems readily accessible on an obvious level. But the 'divine' intention is always there, and this is the quality Kathleen Jones has sought to bring out in her translation: 'Considerations of rhyme and metre have been treated as secondary to the importance of precise theological expression, and of conveying something of the lyricism and spiritual power of the original.' Her main purpose is devotional, but her translation is a pleasure to read. The established Spanish text appears on left-hand pages with the English translation facing.