Abstract
Abstract María de San José (Salazar) and Ana de San Bartolomé's poetry echoed Saint Teresa of ávila's actions, beliefs, and literary style, while also articulating a link to their time and place in (and, as nuns, dead to) the world, and to the monastic communities to which they dedicated themselves. María de San José's verses portray the daily life, interests, obstacles to, and methodologies of the new Discalced Carmelite convents. Dramatically representing joy and challenges, internal and external, her poems convey a militant defense of her spiritual mother's reform. Less elaborated than María de San José's, Ana de San Bartolomé's extant poems reflect sixteenth-century cultural expression in its broadest sense. She expresses the Discalced Carmelite concern with an intimate relationship with the divinity and the desire to inculcate the reformed Order's way of life. Her verses elaborate a mystical bent, as well as a profound sense of monastic community.
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