First lines: "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions, $37.50) presumably is the entire and final"... Citation: Panorama - Chicago Daily News (7-8 January 1978). G.E. Murray.
First lines: "Thomas Merton personifies the spirit of transitional American Catholicism. He entered the monastery"... Citation: Thought 53 (March 1978): 112-115. George A. Kilcourse.
First lines: "From his retreat at Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky, the Trappist monk has chosen sixty-eight poems"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (6 March 1960).
First lines: "The number of Thomas Merton's prose works and the general interest in his social commentary and"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 3.1 (Spring 1978): 5. John Leax.
First lines: "Cet enorme volume de plus de mille pages contient"... Citation: Collectanea Cisterciensia 40 (1978).
First lines: "Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton"... Citation: The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.
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Reviews of Come Into the Silence.
First lines: "Come into the Silence is part of the “30 Days with a Great Spiritual Teacher” series published by Ave Maria Press." Citation: The Merton Seasonal 47.3 (Fall 2022): 42-43.
First lines: "Throughout the world, spiritual"... Citation: Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 16.3 (2010): 60.
First lines: "Perhaps a key to Thomas Merton's enduring fame is that he provides a window to a soul's spiritual"... Citation: Merton Annual 23: 288-290.
First lines: "This slim volume brings together for"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 17.2 (Advent 2010): 42-43.
First lines: "Cities leave me with a sense of placelessness and exile--the ceaseless motion of hot traffic, tired"... Citation: Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Mass. (8 August 1966).
First lines: "Et tu Thomas Merton! Everyone else rereads the self as natural mode. Why not you? Catholic thought"... Citation: Choice 4 (January 1968): 1256.
First lines: "Thomas Merton characterizes his new book by saying that is "consists of a series of sketches and"... Citation: Clergy Review 53 (October 1968): 833-834. Donald Nicholl.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, the Kentucky Trappist monk who lives as a hermit in the woods of the Abbey of Our"... Citation: Courier Journal Louisville KY (25 December 1966).William Habich.
First lines: "Almost simultaneously, two new yet dissimilar books have been ushered out of the Kentucky woods by"... Citation: Critic 25 (April-May 1967): 70-72. James Forest.
First lines: "I read Seven Storey Mountain when I was 16 years old, and since then Merton has followed me wherever"... Citation: Dominicana 52 (March 1967): 73-74. Joachim Plummer, OP.
First lines: "As Dag Hammarskjold's Markings represents the religious thoughts of a layman, so this book by Thomas"... Citation: Friends Journal (1 March 1967). John Yungblut.
First lines: "This book is for lively companionship. The Trappist poet, autobiographer and essayist offers here"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee WI (12 February 1967). Louise Cattoi.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Doubleday, $4.95), consists of"... Citation: Jubilee 14 (March 1967): 42. William F. Claire.
First lines: "Maybe the best way to characterize this book is to say that it consists of a series of sketches and"... Citation: Library Journal 91 (15 November 1966): 5624. John K. Amrhein.
First lines: "Here is a strange and moving book, difficult to classify, difficult even to describe. Superficially,"... Citation: Month [London] 40 (October 1968): 211-212. Christopher Sykes.
First lines: "Once more we have the work of Thomas Merton, this time in two books published almost simultaneously"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 3 (21 December 1966): 9. Michele Murray.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was the secular name of the Trappist monk, Father M. Louis, of the Abbey of Gethsemani"... Citation: Oberlin Herald Topeka, KS (20 March 1969). Elizabeth Reeves.
First lines: "The Christian church and the committed Christian are in turmoil. Any one who takes Christianity"... Citation: Record [Hackensack, NJ] (5 November 1966): A4. Wilma Supik.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's stunning new book is a portent. Clearly the fruit of nearly a decade of interior"... Citation: Times Chattanooga, TN (4 December 1966). Fr. Christopher Morley Jr.
First lines: "There was once a convert to catholicism who wrote a beautiful, moving book explaining why he had"... Citation: Triumph 2 (March 1967): 34. Lee Edwards.
First lines: "Ever since his student days at Columbia in the '30s, Thomas Merton had a deep, abiding interest in"... Citation: Cord 21 (September 1971): 281-283. Vianney M. Devlin OFM.
First lines: "The conversion of Thomas Merton to Roman Catholicism and his subsequent monastic career represent"... Citation: Liturgical Arts 39 (August 1971): 113, 115-116. Aaron W. Godfrey.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's ideas on the monastic life changed greatly in the years after 'Elected Silence'"... Citation: Month [London] 5 (July 1972): 219.
First lines: "This book puts together a set of unpublished essays on the monastic life and"... Citation: Irish Theological Quarterly 39.3 (July 1972): 311-312.
First lines: "In certain circles there has been"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 283. [145-147].
First lines: "If this was the Christmas you were going to give Grandma one of those new Catholic prayerbooks"... Citation: Catholic Sentinel, Portland Oregon (19 December 1969. Ed O'Meara.
First lines: "In the Book of Changes (or I Ching, Princeton University Press edition), the oracular classic of the"... Citation: Critic 28 (January - February 1970): 86-88. James Forest.
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Reviews of The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was once advised by Evelyn Waugh, who edited The Seven"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.1 (Easter 1995): 46-50.
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First lines: "Pope Francis recently proclaimed the American Catholic and Cistercian monk Thomas Merton to be an exemplary model of contemplative peace (a controversial statement)." Citation: Reading Religion (August 23, 2018).
First lines: "This book consists of a series of lectures (thirteen to be exact – though"... Citation: The Merton Annual 31 (2018): 201-204.
First lines: "This is a wonderful book. Straight from Merton himself, it brings us a"... Citation: The Merton Journal 25.2 (Advent 2018): 29-31.
First lines: "In editing and making available Thomas Merton’s thirteen lectures on the Christian mystical"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 42.3 (Fall 2017): 25-29.
Reviews of A Course in Desert Spirituality: Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk.
First lines: "This has been a difficult review to ponder, then write. During"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 70.2 (June 2019): 224-226.
First lines: "This volume consists of 15 lectures given by Thomas Merton to the novices of Gethsemani Abbey"... Citation: The Downside Review 139.2 (2020): 156-157.
First lines: "A Course in Desert Spirituality represents both Thomas Merton’s legacy"... Citation: The Merton Annual 33 (2020): 255-258.
First lines: "While many have profited from Thomas Merton's writing on contemplative"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 54.4 (2019): 463-464.
First lines: "What better time to read Thomas Merton’s newly available book on desert spirituality than"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 45.2 (Summer 2020): 25-27.
First lines: "Like a great crescendo, this next-to-last volume of Thomas Merton's journals manifests the"... Citation: Journal of Religion and Health 36.4 (Winter 1997): 379. Robert W. Gunn.
First lines: "Near the middle of this fifth of seven volumes (October 31, 1964), Merton writes,"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago, IL] 93.21 (July 1997): 1778-79.
First lines: "The life of the American monk and spiritual"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 4974 (Aug. 14 1998): 31.
First lines: "This, the fifth of the seven projected volumes of Thomas Merton's complete journals,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 5.1 (Easter 1998): 66-68.
First lines: "The intriguing title of this volume, imaging Merton as dancing in the water of life, reminded me of"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:2 (Summer 1997): 25-26.
First lines: "There is no doubt that Ernesto Cardenal"... Citation: Hispania, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Mar., 2001): 68-69.
First lines: "Merton was always beginning his spiritual life anew, never afraid to acknowledge the darkness in which"... Citation: Christian Century 118.32 (21-28 November 2001): 47.
First lines: "The title of this latest book by America's most amazing monk has scholastic connotation which are"... Citation: Catholic World 192 (November 1960): 115-116, John J. Keating CSP.
First lines: "Father Merton, perhaps the most urbane Roman Catholic essayist in the United States, discourses on"... Citation: Chicago Sun Times (29 January 1961). Jack Conroy.
First lines: "This is a religious book, certainly; yet, in another real sense, it is not. Its scope and"... Citation: Critic 19 (December-January 1960-1961): 30-31. Sister M. Therese SDS.
First lines: "The longest essay in this collection, dedicated to the memory of Boris Pasternak, is an evaluation"... Citation: News Sentinel Ft. Wayne, IN (24 December 1960). Florence M. Manny.
First lines: "This is indeed an extraordinary book, even by so unusual a monk as Thomas Merton, whom we know"... Citation: Renascence 14 (Winter 1962): 102-105. Sister Therese.
First lines: "*This is a collection of essays by the distinguished author on various subjects, related loosely"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (1 October 1960).
First lines: "Is modern man in America likely to be too conformist? Is his inclination toward passivity? Does our"... Citation: Worcester Telegram, Mass (5 February 1961). Frederick L. Rushton. 2 copies.
First lines: "This might well be sub-dubbed "The Anti-Organization Man," but for the readers who might wonder what"...
First lines: "Columns of nonsense and a certain amount of sense in popular avant garde pages, have been written"... Citation: Catholic Library World 32 (November 1960) : 141-142.
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Reviews of Eighteen Poems.
First lines: "Older men have been attracted to younger woman before, patients to their nurses. Poems have"... Citation: Commonweal 113.19 (7 November 1986): 602-604.
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First lines: "The Catholic reader will take up this volume, the autobiography"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 4.40 (October 1949): 183-185.
First lines: "There come frightful moments to everybody, when no human being can"... Citation: The Merton Journal 23.2 (Advent 2016): 30-31. Originally publised in The Daily Herald. (27th July 1949).
First lines: "A few prose pieces, some 30 poems, and as many translations comprise the twenty-first published book"... Citation: Choice 1.1 (March 1964): 22-23.
First lines: "In a "Message to Poets" which Thomas Merton sent to a group of writers that met in Mexico City in"... Citation: Renascence 17 (Fall 1964): 51-53. Sister M. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.
Reviews of Encounter: Thomas Merton and D. T. Suzuki.
First lines: "Entering the Silence details Thomas Merton's growth as a gifted writer and teacher and in doing so"... Citation: Journal of Religion and Health 35.2 (summer 1996): 174-176. John Howard Griffin.
First lines: "To judge by what is stocked in many bookstores, the religion books category grows ever broader,"... Citation: Patriot Ledger [Quincy MA] (23 March 1996): 46. Gustav Niebuhr.
First lines: "Aptly titled, this second volume of Merton's journals shows him entering more deeply into the"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 33.1 (1998): 87-90. Sheryl Frances Chen OCSO.
First lines: "To love onself perfectly, Merton writes in an entry near the end of this volume, is to disappear." Citation: Booklist [Chicago, IL] 92.12 (15 February 1996): 967.
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First lines: "A Trappist poet and writer reveals the hidden life of a French Trappistine who, self-exiled from her"... Citation: America (26 February 1949).
First lines: "'A biography of Mother Mary Berchmans, foundress of a Trappistine convent in Japan.'"... Citation: Book Rev Digest (November 1949). Contains excerpts of reviews by M. R. Grennan and Theodore Maynard.
First lines: "'Exile Ends in Glory,' the life of a Trappistine, by Thomas Merton reveals the hidden life of Mother"... Citation: E. Washingtonian Pomeroy, Wash (2 November 1950).
First lines: "The Trappist poet and writer sets down the life story of a French Trappistine in exile from her own"... Citation: Our Sunday Visitor (11 December 1949).
First lines: "A Trappist poet and writer reveals the hidden life of a French Trappistine who, self-exiled from her"... Citation: Publishers Weekly (26 February 1949).
First lines: "The life of Mother Mary Berchmans, French Trappistine who left the convent of her profession to make"... Citation: Visitor [Providence RI] (12 August 1948).
First lines: "It has been my good fortune, over the past few years, to read and review the poetry of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Saturday Review of Literature 31.41 (9 October 1948): 30. Ann F. Wolfe.
First lines: "'Faith and Nonviolence' is a trenchant, heroic and constructive analysis of Christian teaching and"... Citation: Courier Journal Louisville, KY (13 October 1968). Deba P. Patnaik.
First lines: "This book is a collection of essays, many published before,"... Citation: Catholic Messenger (5 September 1968).
First lines: "This second book by a Roman Catholic writer recently published"... Citation: Canadian Mennonite (September 12, 1969).
First lines: "To many Fr. Thomas Merton was an irreplacable man." Citation: The Tablet 223.6748 (20 September 1969): 928.
First lines: "In these days of meat and butter at a dollar a pound, it is wonderful indeed that for $2.50 a throw"... Citation: Commonweal 48 (13 August 1948): 430-431. Anne Fremantly.
First lines: "Seldom does one come across a book eloquent not only of such a beneficent nature but also of great"... Citation: Voices 134 (1948): 60-62. John Howard Griffin.
First lines: "It is supposed that there is a great, tired, thick-headed public indifference to poetry, and that we"... Citation: Sewanee Review 56.4 (Autumn 1948): 685-697. Robert Fitzgerald.
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First lines: "In addition to the five volumes of Thomas Merton's letters published between"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 69.2 (June 2020): 311-14.
First lines: "When Ernesto Cardenal became a novice at the Abbey of Gethsemani in"... Citation: The Merton Annual 31 (2018): 204-213.
First lines: "Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal are legendary figures whose paths crossed at Gethsemani,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 42.4 (Winter 2017): 33-35.
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First lines: "The potpourri of books listed above represents one small eddy in the stream of books and monographs"... Citation: Parabola 6.1 (Winter 1981): 109-113.
First lines: "Thomas Merton chose to be a cloistered contemplative within one of the most austere religious orders in the United States." Citation: Review [Charlottesville, VA] 4 (1982): 295-333 [see review author file].