Octavio Paz wrote about this author in The Traps of Faith, and this author depicted the soul rising toward knowledge in a dream in her poem Primero Sueno.
In one of this author's poems, Coplas explains to Estribillo that the blackness of the Virgin Mary does not make he impure. This author wrote poems praising "divine Lysis" and the Marquis of Mancera, and criticized people who call women lewd while paying for prostitutes in "Foolish Men." A play by this author begins with a loa where Religion saves the life of a native woman named America, before Human Nature allegorizes Christ as Narcissus. In addition to The Divine Narcissus, this author defended female learning in a response to a letter written under the pseudonym "Filotea." Octavio Paz wrote about this author in The Traps of Faith, and this author depicted the soul rising toward knowledge in a dream in her poem Primero Sueno. FTP, name this 17th century Mexican poet who spent most of her life in a convent.
In one of this author's poems, Coplas explains to Estribillo that the blackness of the Virgin Mary does not make he impure.
{Sor Juana Ines} de la {Cruz} [or {Juana Ramirez} de {Asbaje}]