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First lines: "'I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman, plucking wild figs." Citation: Journal Providence RI (10 April 1955). William P. Kelley.

First lines: "'The Sign of Jonas,' a new book by Thomas Merton, will be published by Harcourt, Brace in September"... Citation: New York Herald Times (22 May 1952).

First lines: "Last summer a Trappist monk told me that he never reads Thomas Merton any more; he feels that Merton"... Citation: Ave Maria 93 (20 May 1961): 27. Rev. Willard F. Jabusch.

First lines: "This book contains material, revised and expanded, that previously was published in the magazine,"... Citation: Review for Religious 21.3 (May 1965): 279-280. Richard J. Middendorf SF.

First lines: "This third volume of the projected five-volume series of the letters of Thomas Merton embraces the"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (10 November 1990): A15. L. Elisabeth Beattie.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk whose "Seven Storey Mountain" continues as a best-seller, offers a"... Citation: Bulletin Philadelphia PA (10 April 1949). Frank Hanlon.

First lines: "Here, at least, is something of an answer to the sometimes not-too-carefully-made charge that SPIRIT"... Citation: Spirit 27 (May 1960): 59-62. Allan Rayne.

First lines: "Today is a perfect day to commune with Thomas Merton, because the sun is shining and the birds are"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:1 (Spring 2005): 23-24.

First lines: "Last week's column was, not inappropriately, devoted in past to a backward look, with a measure of"...

First lines: "If an American knows the name of only one living monk, the chances are good that the name will be"... Citation: Book Week 2 (17 January 1965):4. Martin E. Marty.

First lines: "The legacy of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk,"... Citation: Chronicles of Culture (March 1983): 15-18.

First lines: "The author of this autobiography is a young poet who, at the age of 26, entered the Trappist"... Citation: New Republic (4 October 1948). John Farrelly.

First lines: "Brother Patrick Hart's edition of Merton's literary essays was a welcome addition to Mertoniana"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 10:4 (Fall 1985): 18-20.

First lines: "Is it true that many, even a majority of, American Catholics have abandoned the habit of private,"... Citation: Identical articles printed in 3 papers: Green Bay Register Green Bay WI (28 September 1969), Mississippi Register Jackson 5, Miss (2.

First lines: "As spring lurches into summer many journals tell their readers what books are most attractive as"... Citation: Catholic World 237.1419 (May-June 1994): Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "by this time we know that any book by Thomas Merton, whatever else it may contain, will have the"... Citation: Peter Canisius.

First lines: "In the latest of his many books, Thomas Merton turns the rolling thunder of his majestic prose to"... Citation: Register Des Moines, IA (10 January 1965).

First lines: "Long before accidentally electrocuting himself in 1968, Fr. Thomas Merton had a world-wide"... Citation: Daily Telegraph [London] (29 January 2000): B2. Rupert Short.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, was published 40 years ago"... Citation: Plain Dealer [Cleveland] (20 October 1988): 5.

First lines: "The first thing one notices about this book is that is it big. At 604 pages of text and more than"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 38:1 (Spring 2013): 35-36.

First lines: "Too often the Muse, with bright but vainly beating wings, flutters around our book columns, seeking"... Citation: America 97 (13 July 1957): 408.

First lines: "Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and"... Citation: Saturday Review 40 (6 July 1957): 29. Donald Hall.

First lines: "A far more complex and profound examination of man's anguish is provided by Thomas Merton in the New"... Citation: Catholic Transcript Hartford Conn. (1 February 1962). J.S.K.

First lines: "In 1945, Dom Frederic Dunne, Abbot of Gethsemani, aware of his young monk’s linguistic"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 43.2 (Summer 2018): 29-32.

First lines: "All discussion of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance or books about them should begin"... Citation: Post Boston, MA (18 September 1949). Herbert A. Kenny.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has always been considered a man of paradox, a man who attempted to achieve a certain"... Citation: Journal of Pastoral Counseling 34 (1999): 128-130. Marc Ricciardi.

First lines: "I am quite sure there has been no books like this, It is a diary kept during five years spent in a"... Citation: New York Times Book Review 58 (8 February 1953): 1. George N. Shuster.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Father Louis of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, has written in"... Citation: Journal Rapid City SD (2 October 1949).

First lines: "Recent national best seller lists show that the author of this book, who sprang suddenly to fame"... Citation: News Detroit MI (6 November 1949).

First lines: "The monastic life is a puzzling one to most persons. They not only do not understand it, they find"... Citation: Des Moines Sunday Register (10 March 1957). Pauline Millen.

First lines: "Thomas Merton (1915-1968), the Trappist monk who lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown,"... Citation: Lexington Herald-Leader (24 Febraury 2002): H4.

First lines: "This is the second book by Mr. Thomas Merton"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] (23 December 1949): 845.

First lines: "In the last three-and-a-half years"... Citation: Christian Century (25 November 1970): 1425-1426.

First lines: "Contemplation is not very prevalent in the modern world. Everyone is going somewhere so fast, he"... Citation: Times Indianapolis, IN (March 1949). R.W.M. Also see 04a.

First lines: "A significant account of the spiritual journey of a thoroughly modern young man to his eventual and"... Citation: Herald Boston, MA (19 February 1950).

First lines: "A very unusual autobiography of a young American who after being thoroughly immersed in the world,"... Citation: State Columbia SC (13 February 1949).

First lines: "A young man of the world became a Trappist monk in a Kentucky monastery, Seven years later, at the"... Citation: Jrl Transcript Franklin, NH (17 March 1949).

First lines: "The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton is the final"... Citation: Chicago Tribune (5 August 1973).

First lines: "'To be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy.' So says the young Trappist monk Thomas Merton"... Citation: Appeal Memphis TN (17 April 1949).

First lines: "Patrick F. O'Connell, professor of English and theology at Gannon University, is well-known"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 38.3 (Fall 2013): 21-23.

First lines: "To the swiftly increasing numbers of foreign editions of 'Mertoniana'--the 'Seven Storey Mountain,'"... Citation: Renascence 4 (Spring 1952): 197-199. Sister M. Therese Lentoehr SDS.

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: "To the swiftly increasing numbers of foreign editions of "Mertoniana"--the Seven Storey Mountain,"... Citation: Renascence 4 (Spring 1952): 197-199. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "I have already acquired a small queue of young people who want to borrow this book. What makes the"... Citation: Times (25 May 1974). Joseph McCulloc.

First lines: "'This book--is a personal and monastic meditation, a testimony of Christian reflection in the"... Citation: Gazette Charleston WV (15 January 1967). William L. Hawes.

First lines: "'To sit in a room where everything is so still that one can hear a grain of sand fall, and"... Citation: Pilot Norfolk, VA (20 January 1957). Rev. James Brewer.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest books is an attempt to penetrate and respond to those challenges to modern"... Citation: Sign 44 (March 1965): 69-70. Sonya Quitslund.

First lines: "The longer Father Merton lives in cloister and silence, the louder his voice seems to become. His"... Citation: Commonweal 81 (12 March 1965): 766. Richard Horchler.

First lines: "Written by a member of the Trappist Abbey in Gethsemani, Kentucky, this book is a "tract for the"... Citation: Review and Expositor [Louisville] 64 (Summer 1967): 402-403. H.H. Barrette.

First lines: "In this, his 26th book, the famed Trappist monk gives merited attention to theologian Karl Rahner"... Citation: America 112 (16 January 1965): 83-84. Thomas F. Greene.

First lines: "Fra Louis's Seven Storey Mountain has been compared with Augustine's immortal Confessions and,"... Citation: Commonweal 50 (15 April 1949): 20. H.A. Reinhold.

First lines: "Merton "Imitation of Christ." Excellent. Should rival Seven Storey Mountain in popularity." Citation: Catholic Messenger Davenport Iowa (24 March 1949).

First lines: "Merton will be remembered as the Trappist monk and poet whose account of his conversion, The Seven"... Citation: Book of the Month (May 1949). Basil Davenport.

First lines: "This book which the author, a Trappist Monk, modestly describes as "more or less disconnected"... Citation: Tomorrow (June 1949). Donald Demarest.

First lines: "Here you can share with the young Trappist monk and poet the blessings which have come to him in his"... Citation: State Columbia, SC (16 October 1949).

First lines: "Meditations, addressed to all men, in which the author discusses the blessings which have come to"... Citation: Plain Dealer Cleveland OH (5 March 1950).

First lines: "The young Trappist monk and poet, Thomas Merton, has become widely known through the success of his"... Citation: Register New Haven Conn (20 March 1949).

First lines: "Modern, "Imitation of Christ." Excellent. Should rival Seven Storey Mountain in popularity. Thomas"... Citation: Catholic Mirror Springfield Mass (June 1949).

First lines: "Fr. Louis (Thomas) Merton has written his best book: as literature, it manifests a terse, luminous"... Citation: Orate Fratres 23 (15 May 1949): 336. David R. King.

First lines: "Solitary in the stillness of a call, a Trappist monk follows his much-read autobiography, "The Seven"... Citation: New York Times (16 April 1949).

First lines: "'...a volume of more or less disconnected thoughts and ideas and aphorisms about the interior life"... Citation: Call Allentown, PA (26 June 1949).

First lines: "The Trappist monk and poet, author of the best selling book, "Seven Storey Mountain," explains what"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (March 1949).

First lines: "The new book by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," to be published on Ash Wednesday, is a"... Citation: New York Saturday Review (19 February 1949).

First lines: "The author of that extraordinary best-seller The Seven Storey Mountain has given us an altogether"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin NY City (15 March 1949).

First lines: "Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton, a young Trappist monk and author of the best-selling Seven"... Citation: Inquirer Philadelphia, PA (10 April 1949).

First lines: "the author of this remarkable book, the fastest selling this firm has ever had, was received into"... Citation: Catholic World 169.1009/1014 (May 1949): 156. Joseph McSorley.

First lines: "the young Trappist monk and poet whose autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," has been on the"... Citation: Observer Charlotte, NC (15 May 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, author of the current best seller, 'The Seven Storey Mountain,'" Citation: Journal Providence RI (15 May 1949). J.N.H.

First lines: "A young Trappist monk explains what contemplation really is and how it enriches life." Citation: Enterprise Brockton, Mass (29 November 1949).

First lines: "In these beautiful meditations the author shares the blessings which have come to him in the peace"... Citation: America (18 February 1950).

First lines: "Bound in a strong, thickly woven cloth, this book is truly garbed like a monk. Its healthy, rustic"... Citation: Journal of Religion 29.3 (July 1949): 241-242. Emile Cailliet.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton, a new convert to Catholicism in 1941, made his Easter retreat at a monastery in"... Citation: Herald Express Los Angeles CA (2 February 1959). Darsie L. Darsie.

First lines: "This is a work by Thomas Merton which dates back twenty years, before his entry into the Trappists,"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Service 27 (15 January 1959): 49.

First lines: "For 10 years (1958-68) the poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz and the poet and monk Thomas Merton"... Citation: America 176.3 (1 February 1997): 6. Robert Coles.

First lines: "'Seasons of Celebration," the latest book of Thomas Merton, the well-known Trappist author from"... Citation: Traveler Boston, Mass (3 December 1965). Edward Murawski.

First lines: "Take fifteen talks given to a variety of monastic audiences over a period of fifteen years on"... Citation: Sign 45 (January 1966): 69. John Kirvan, CSP.

First lines: "The basic themes of this series of essays and addresses is the liturgical renewal that many persons"... Citation: Times Chattanooga, TN (16 January 1966). Harold E. Barrett.

First lines: "Transferring to this work the artistic concept of a triptych is one way to help readers to"... Citation: Boston Sunday Globe (26 August 1973). Sister Anne Delaney. Copy of #2a.

First lines: "Transferring to this work the artistic concept of a triptych is one way to help readers to"... Citation: Boston Sunday Globe (26 August 1973). Sister Anne Delaney. Copy of #3.

First lines: "If you want to give someone a Christmas present"... Citation: North Carolina Catholic (December 16, 1990).

First lines: "This work developed from a pamphlet started by request of his superior before Seven Storey Mountain"... Citation: Catholic Booklist St. Catherine KY (1951).

First lines: "The Strange Islands is Thomas Merton's first collection of new poems in eight years. The prodigious"... Citation: Poetry 91 (October 1957): 41-44. Donald Justice.

First lines: "These volumes are beautifully produced. Simply to hold and look at them seems to confirm the"... Citation: Anglican Theological Review 79.1 (Winter 1997): 92-95. Gabriel Everitt OSB.

First lines: "These volumes are beautifully produced. Simply to hold and look at them seems to confirm the"... Citation: Anglican Theological Review 79.1 (Winter 1997): 92-95. Gabriel Everitt OSB.

First lines: "By late 1966, Thomas Merton viewed his public existence ambivalently. In one sense, it seemed an"... Citation: America 174.20 (22 June 1996): 23-24. John Cristie.

First lines: "Twenty-seven years after his death in Thailand, Kentucky monk Thomas Merton remains a phenomenon"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (7 October 1995): A13. Clyde F. Crews.

First lines: "Robert Faggen's edition of these letters traces the spiritual journey and growing friendship of two"... Citation: Cross Currents 48 (Winter 1998-1999): 559-560. Dominic Ording.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the young Trappist monk whose The Seven Storey Mountain is a sensational best seller,"... Citation: Dispatch Columbus, OH (17 April 1949). Mary McGarey.

First lines: "Merton's The Tears of the Blind Lions is uneven poetry-even within a single poem the quality varies"... Citation: Hopkins Review 3 (1949): 54-55. Manly Johnson.

First lines: "The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" believes that because modern man is without love he is"... Citation: News Detroit Michigan (25 November 1951).

First lines: "Before "the Seven Storey Mountain" was published. Thomas Merton had begun to keep a journal. "The"... Citation: Record Chelsea Mass (23 April 1953).

First lines: "In mid-1964, Thomas Merton issued a call to retreat to a group of friends, bringing them to his"... Citation: Catholic Worker 46.7 (September 1980): 2, 5. Bill Barrett OFM.

First lines: "Of these five poets, one, Allen Tate, with a writing career of twenty-five years behind him, has"... Citation: Hudson Review 1 (Summer 1948): 258-266. Frederick Morgan Davenport.

First lines: "While he lived, Thomas Merton's life was a mystery to many, including himself, and since his death"... Citation: Canadian Catholic Review 3.8 (September 1985): 15/295-16/296. Ross Labrie.

First lines: "This is not a biography, but the"... Citation: The Wanderer (May 19, 2016): 8a.

First lines: "W jednej z najszczerszych ksiazek napisanych na progu XX wieku,"... Citation: Wiez 45.8-9 (2012): 155-58.

First lines: "This new work by the Trappist monk, poet and author of the surprisingly and persistently"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (20 March 1949): 4. Philip Burnham.

First lines: "The poet Thomas Merton now tells the story of his life in "The Seven Storey Mountain," a symbol"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (17 September 1948).

First lines: "Thomas Merton will never attract a wide audience; but if writers get what they deserve, he can"... Citation: News Miami, FL (18 May 1958). F.S.

First lines: "Although the influential monk and writer, Thomas Merton, died in 1968, his"... Citation: Methodist Recorder (30 May 2002): 17.