Poems, Protest, and a Dream : Selected Writings (Paperback)

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

RESPONSE TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS POETESS SOR FILOTEA DE LA CRUZ

FIRST I DREAM

ROMANCES
Prologue to the Reader
In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru
While by Grace I Am Inspired

REDONDILLAS
A Philosophical Satire

EPIGRAMS
Satiric Reproach
Which Reveals
A Much-Needed Eyewash
A Bit of Moral Advice
Demonstration to a Sergeant

DECIMAS
She Assures that She Will Hold a Secret
Accompanying a Ring
A Modest Gift
She Describes in Detail

SONNETS
She Attempts to Minimize the Praise
She Laments Her Fortune
Better Death
Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice
She Distrusts, as Disguised Cruelty
One of Five Burlesque Sonnets
She Answers Suspicions
Which Recounts How Fantasy Contents Itself
She Resolves the Question

VILLANCICO
Fragment from "Santa Catarina"

THEATER, SACRED AND PROFANE
Loa for El Divino Narciso
Fragment from Los Empenos de Una Casa

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