'I Am' by John Clare is a powerful expression of the abject disintegration of self and the yearning for communion with the divine.| The Culturium
'The Harvest Bow', included in Field Work (1979), Seamus Heaney’s fifth collection of poetry, is a highly Wordsworthian master lyric of bucolic remembrance.| The Culturium
Anonymous fourteenth-century text, "The Cloud of Unknowing", is the glory of English mysticism and a useful guide to finding union with God.| The Culturium
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" is the first modern essay to appreciate the outdoors as an expression of the divine spirit of God.| The Culturium
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Meditations of a Solitary Walker" describes the philosopher's yearning to live a more natural way of life.| The Culturium
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Waldeinsamkeit", meaning "forest loneliness", describes the poet's feelings of solitude & deep connection to nature.| The Culturium
"All Religions Are One" is a seminal text that defined the work of one of the Romantic period's most mystical visual poets, William Blake.| The Culturium