The Poems of St. John of the Cross

St. John [John Frederick Nims (trans.), Robert Graves (ed.)] • ISBN-13 978‑1733861854

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The Poems of St. John of the Cross

St. John [John Frederick Nims (trans.), Robert Graves (ed.)]

ISBN-10: 1733861858 · ISBN-13: 978‑1733861854 · 1968

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New York: Grove Press, 1968. First printing. Hardcover, 151pp., 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Three small spots to rear paste down endpaper, obscured by jacket's rear flap. Poems by the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic San Juan de la Cruz, more commonly known as St. John of the Cross. This copy opens with the essay "A lo divino" by Robert Graves where he discusses St. John's "ecstatic love caught and preserved in a poem" and the influence of such authors as Rumi and Ramon Llull on St John. Poems in Spanish with English translation on adjacent page.

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Inferred: Christian MysticismInferred: MysticismInferred: Religious PoetryInferred: Spanish Golden AgeInferred: Spanish LiteratureInferred: First PrintingInferred: Bilingual EditionInferred: Mystical Poetry

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