St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521099530)

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: Gerald Brenan
ISBN-10: 0521099536
ISBN-13: 9780521099530
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/24/1975
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d