Poems Protest and a Dream

A bilingual edition of writings by Latin America''s finest baroque poet. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work La Respuesta a Sor Filotea 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. . Also 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. . For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.