Poems Hales ISBN: 978-1944418069

ISBN: 978-1944418069

By Caryll Houselander

the editor of the American Ecclesiastical Review

Winsnes—“remarkable for her sure critical sense in the treatment of sources and

Poems Hales ISBN: 978-1944418069By St. John of the Cross Translated by Roy Campbell Preface by Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. Afterword by Conrad Pepler, O. P. The poetry of St. John of the Cross has received almost innumerable accolades. In his Preface to this volume, M. C. DArcy quotes Marcelino Menndez y Pelayo, the remarkable Spanish historian and critic, in praise of the poems of the Mystical Doctor: So sublime is this poetry that it scarcely seems to belong to this world at all;