The Dark Night of the SoulThe Low Way · Collection I
Purification in apparent absence
The Dark Night of the Soul
John’s poem and commentary describe the stripping away of familiar consolations. The darkness is not abandonment, but a difficult reorientation of desire toward a union that cannot be possessed.
- Format
- Web · print · JSON · text
- Length
- about 43,500 words
- Status
- Scan/OCR transcription · human proof pass still required
Fresh Low Way edition
One text, many forms.
What this edition contains
- The poem and its exposition
- Book I: The night of sense
- Book II: The night of the spirit
Edition & provenance
Freshly structured,
not silently modernized.
Translated by David Lewis, with corrections and an introductory essay by Benedict Zimmerman. Thomas Baker, London, 1908.
The historical translation is credited in provenance, but its introductions, commentary, notes, indexes, and publisher matter are not part of the reading text. The underlying edition was published before January 1, 1931 and is public domain in the United States. Copyright status can differ elsewhere.