God of Religious Thinkers – Poets

The article considers the religious-poetic tradition based on the English and German metaphysical poetry 17-20th centuries, the focus of which is authors’ experience of God. The English metaphysical school is represented poet John Donne and his intellectual circle; the German school – by Novalis, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and others. The author of the article offers his Ukrainian translations of some spiritual works of these famous European poets and interprets their poetic phenomenon in the light of critical sources.