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Martha Sprackland & James Butler: John of the Cross
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- Aug 12, 2026
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Summary
The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, 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. Dark Night (Penguin Classics) gathers all of John’s poetry, together with a selection of his prose. The book’s translator, poet Martha Sprackland, joined LRB contributing editor James Butler for a discussion of the life and work of John of the Cross, and his abiding influence. You can buy a copy of Dark Night from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices