Elemente 'Identifikation'
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Name und Standort des Archivs
Erschließungsstufe
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- 1968 February 11 (Anlage)
Umfang
1 page(s); Typed signed letter.
Name des Bestandsbildners
Biographische Angaben
Wendell Berry is a farmer and writer of poetry, novels, prose, and essays. He writes to Merton from Port Royal, Kentucky. Themes in his writings include concern for the land, environmental conservation, the value of work, and the culture of agricultural communities.x000D
Merton began a correspondence with Berry as he began to come of his own as a poet and author. Berry had returned to a family farm in his native Kentucky and was a professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Merton could appreciate Berry's simple life of nature and solitude on a farm and employing traditional agricultural means, both critical of the effects of modern farm machinery on rural life. Though Berry claimed that his poems could only loosely be considered haiku, Merton referred to them as such and included some in his magazine «Monks Pond». Berry shared Merton's opposition to Vietnam and knew many of Merton's friends from Lexington.
Elemente Inhalt und innere Ordnung
Eingrenzung und Inhalt
First lines: "These have all been written since the first of the year. The little poems can be called haiku only"... Contents index: response to copy of Merton's "Comment: re FORUM" - likes Merton's idea of living as an experiment of a "non-organization man" / observations of a woodpecker / Conference on the War at the University of Kentucky - conference had an early Christian feeling.
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In der Verzeichnungseinheit enthaltene Sprachen
- Englisch