answers: St. John of the Cross
context: Dark Night of the Soul Dark Night of the Soul () is a poem written by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross. The author himself did not give any title to his poem, on which he wrote two book-length commentaries: "Ascent of Mount Carmel" ("Subida del Monte Carmelo") and "The Dark Night" ("Noche Oscura"). The poem of St. John of the Cross, in 8 stanzas of 5 lines each, narrates the journey of the soul to mystical union with God. The journey is called "The Dark Night" in part because darkness represents the fact that </s> The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". The title is a phrase that appeared in Adams' novel "Life, the Universe and Everything" to describe the wretched boredom of immortal being Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged, and is a play on the theological treatise "Dark Night of the Soul", by Saint John of the Cross. The novel is named for that time on a Sunday, </s> Taetra". In "The Crack-Up", F. Scott Fitzgerald penned his famous line, "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning". As a comment on the shallowness of modern spirituality, author and humorist Douglas Adams parodied the phrase with the title of his 1988 science fiction novel "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". English electronic band Depeche Mode make a clear reference in "I Feel Loved", the second single released from the album "Exciter": "It's the dark night of my soul and temptation's taking hold, but through the pain and the suffering, through
question: who wrote the dark night of the soul