Spurgeon defines mysticism as a temper of mind concerned with ultimate reality and follows it through the great English writers. She groups them as love and beauty mystics, nature mystics such as Wordsworth, philosophical mystics, and devotional and religious mystics, showing how poets like Tennyson sought the Nameless by sinking into the centre of their own being.
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