John Herbert

The Nightingale

Arts & Literature

“The wonderful images of this poem express a spirituality of passionate yearning and speak to the human heart today no less profoundly than they did in the thirteenth century. It is certainly one of the masterpieces of late medieval mystical poetry, which, until now, has been virtually unknown except to specialists. How blessed we are to have Fr. Robert, whose command of medieval Latin and whose ability to translate these texts so freely has made this mystical work accessible to the contemporary reader. It is a gift to the church, to the literary world, and indeed to all who seek God.”