Willis Barnstone Libros

Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet is an important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of the evolution of the sonnet in Spanish poetry. Professor Barnstones essays are all written with great enthusiasm and with a keen sense of the historical, cultural, and psychological factors that informed the poets work. Professor Barnstone is a poet

Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the Indiana University Press. Most of these poems were written during a period of