Ensouled Region, Shining
The Poems of Fray Luis de León
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
In Spain today, Fray Luis de León is esteemed every bit as highly as his “Golden Age” contemporary, St. John of the Cross, yet no complete edition of Fray Luis’s poems translated into English verse has appeared until now. Ensouled Region, Shining captures the intense reverence of poems that are backed by deep theological learning but charged with simple wonderment. These poems are the timeless testaments of a spiritual visionary.
Endorsements (2)
“The book of poems by Fray Luis de León, one of the great mystics of the glorious Spanish Siglo de Oro (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), embodies the happy act of fascinating creativity in which its author and translator, H. L. Hix, simultaneously manifests his talents as an outstanding American poet and thinker. It is the second ever complete and full translation in English of Fray Luis de León’s poetic legacy, including the source texts in Spanish.”
“H. L. Hix reveals in Fray Luis de León a poetry in which thought is a form of light. These poems move in the company of Horace, Aquinas, and Augustine, where classical measure meets theological fire. Hix preserves the architecture of their music, keeping the rhythm intact so the English carries both discipline and ascent. What remains is clear and unsparing, a voice reaching beyond itself and finding radiance there.”
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