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First Dream

poem by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Also known as: “Primero sueño”

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discussed in biography

In Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
…as the Primero sueño (1692; First Dream, published in A Sor Juana Anthology, 1988), is both personal and universal. The date of its writing is unknown. It employs the convoluted poetic forms of the Baroque to recount the torturous quest of the soul for knowledge. In the poem’s opening, as…
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