In this essay, I explore the dimensions of Edward Young’s (1683–1765) thought on inspiration. Young is most famous as the poet of The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742–1745), once central to the English canon but neglected today. Night Thoughts is a long poem, a series of addresses to a young hedonist, Lorenzo, imploring him to learn from the lessons of the central persona’s life, to choose a life of moral clarity and piety; it is also a series of reflections on the philosophical and spiritual potential of the night and darkness, of suffering, and redemption. The poem is also an expansive account of Young’s thoughts on divine inspiration, via an imagery of darkness and a philosophy of introspection. For Young, the furor poeticus, was not a kind of madness, nor a metaphor for discovery, but instead a state of synthesis between the passions and reason, the body and the soul, the divine and the earthly. Inspiration is a synthesis because it is our unity with God: a meeting between the divine spark within us and the divinity without. In essence, he conceived of inspiration as soulfulness; paying close attention to the soul within us.