Written work
'A lone young shepherd lived in pain'
Otras canciones a lo divino de Cristo y el alma («Un pastorcico solo está penado»)
A shepherd suffering because his shepherdess has forgotten him climbs a tree and dies with arms outstretched: Christ's passion told as an eclogue. Only the last stanza reveals the key to the poem.
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Authorship note
Authentic; included in all critical editions. A reworking 'a lo divino' of a secular pastoral song.
Editions and translations
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English
The Poems (bilingüe)
Harvill Press, 2000
Translation: Roy Campbell
ISBN 1860465897
Introducción de P. J. Kavanagh. Contiene este poema.
The Poems of St. John of the Cross (bilingüe)
University of Chicago Press, 1979
Translation: John Frederick Nims
ISBN 0226401081
Contiene este poema.
Français
Poèmes mystiques
Desclée De Brouwer, 1975
Translation: Lucien Florent
ISBN 2220020193
Contiene este poema.
Español
Poesías
Castalia, 1990
ISBN 8470395726
Edición, introducción y notas de Paola Elia. Contiene este poema.
Poesía
Cátedra, 2000
ISBN 9788437604107
Edición de la poesía completa. Contiene este poema.
Other works by John of the Cross
- Spiritual Canticle (poem) · 1578
- Dark Night (poem) · 1579
- Living Flame of Love (poem) · 1585
- Song of the Soul that Rejoices in Knowing God through Faith ('How well I know the fount') · 1578
- Romances on the Gospel 'In principio erat Verbum' · 1578
- Romance on the Psalm 'Super flumina Babylonis' · 1578
- Stanzas Concerning an Ecstasy Experienced in High Contemplation ('I entered into unknowing') · 1580
- Stanzas of the Soul that Suffers with Longing to See God ('I live, but not in myself') · 1580
- 'Upon a quest of love' (stanzas a lo divino) · 1580
- Gloss 'Without support and with support' · 1580
- Gloss 'Not for all of beauty' · 1580
- 'With the divine Word' (Christmas song) · 1585
- Summary of Perfection ('Forgetfulness of creation') · 1585
- 'My soul is detached' (attributed stanzas) · 1600
- The Ascent of Mount Carmel · 1585
- The Dark Night · 1585
- Spiritual Canticle (redaction A) · 1584
- Spiritual Canticle (redaction B) · 1586
- The Living Flame of Love (commentary) · 1586
- Sayings of Light and Love · 1585
- The Precautions · 1580
- Counsels to a Religious on How to Reach Perfection · 1585
- Censure and Opinion on the Spirit of a Nun · 1588
- The Mount of Perfection (drawing of Mount Carmel) · 1579
- Letters · 1591
- Points of Love Gathered at Beas · 1580
- Spiritual Maxims and Sentences (later collections) · 1700
- Complete Works (collected editions) · 1618
Sources
- San Juan de la Cruz. Obras completas. Ed. José Vicente Rodríguez; introducciones y notas doctrinales de Federico Ruiz Salvador. Madrid: Editorial de Espiritualidad, 1980 (ed. revisada 2008, ISBN 9788470683459).
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