The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Oxford Book of English Mystical VerseIt has emerged from the morass of apathy which characterized the eighteenth and the greater part of the nineteenth century; it is reawakening to the value of its own peculiar treasure of thought and word: on all sides there are signs that it is on the verge of entering into a kingdom of such breadth and fertility as it has perhaps never known. It is as though the world were undergoing a spiritual revitalization, spurring it on to experience — even through destruction and death — a further measure of Reality and Truth.