St. John of the Cross: Selected Poems

from vpfluke

This is a superb translation of the poetry of St. John of the Cross. Ken Krabbenhoft has caught the beauty of the Spanish original. The poems grow upon you with rereading. One of the two poems that particularly captured my imagination was "I entered I knew not where", which continues "and remaine...

from tuckerresearch

St. John of the Cross was a supreme mystic, and his poems are perhaps less known than his mystical treatises, but this collection corrects that. Roy Campbell, a long-wrongly-forgotten poet himself proves his merits as a translator extraordinaire.

from empress8411

This book was more academic than I expected. The book opens with the Spanish and English versions of each poems. The poems include The Codex of Sanlucar de Barrameda and Additional Poems. The last third of the book includes the life history of San Juan, textual and historical analysis of the poem...

from vpfluke

This is a superb translation of the poetry of St. John of the Cross. Ken Krabbenhoft has caught the beauty of the Spanish original. The poems grow upon you with rereading. One of the two poems that particularly captured my imagination was "I entered I knew not where", which continues "and remaine...

from tuckerresearch

St. John of the Cross was a supreme mystic, and his poems are perhaps less known than his mystical treatises, but this collection corrects that. Roy Campbell, a long-wrongly-forgotten poet himself proves his merits as a translator extraordinaire.