{"product_id":"dark-night-poems-and-selected-prose-by-john-of-the-cross-9780241699294","title":"Dark Night : Poems and Selected Prose","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe profound, hugely influential exploration of spiritual growth and transformation, from one of the great Spanish mystics and poets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Oh living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from James Joyce to Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill to T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of his essential works, in a sensitive and luminous translation by Martha Sprackland, gathers John of the Cross's complete poems and a selection of his prose, including from his extended commentary on the poem \"Dark Night\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his immediate, sensual writing, we see a soul searching for meaning and union with the divine: both meek and bold, deserving and undeserving, oscillating between light and dark, soaring and falling, desperation and salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark Night gives us a picture of faith at once confronting and inspiriting, and of the power of words as a means of spiritual transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Martha Sprackland, with an introduction by Colin Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John of the Cross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57235954598261,"sku":"9780241699294","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9780241699294.jpg?v=1780076009","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/dark-night-poems-and-selected-prose-by-john-of-the-cross-9780241699294","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}