Download or read book A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ written by St. John of the Cross and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming to be a literary interpretation, this poem of forty stanza's is loosely based on the Biblical book of Song of Songs. This story follows a bride that has been separated from her bridegroom and her search for him. If it is not obvious enough from the reading of the poem itself and St. John of the Cross's extensive explanation afterwards, the poem is a literary interpretation of Song of Songs, but also of the soul's search for Jesus Christ.