Light Life and Love

William Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, and professor of divinity at Cambridge University. He was nicknamed the Gloomy Dean because of his pessimistic views in his writings. Besides being a priest, Inge was a columnist for the Evening Standard and a trustee of London's National Portrait Gallery. He is best known for his works on Plotinus and neoplatonic philosophy, and on Christian mysticism. Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages was published in 1904.