Dark Night: Poems and Selected Prose

A major devotional work by one of the greatest Christian mystics and Spanish poets

A Penguin Classic

The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Seamus Heaney. This 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 c...