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First lines: "Originally scheduled for publication in 1971, Thomas Merton's journals for 1964-65 temporarily"... Citation: Abilene Reporter-News (16 October 1988).

First lines: "The important Catholic church sacrament of Holy Eucharist is a religious mystery into which Author"... Citation: Press Cleveland, OH (6 March 1956). Robert Clifford.

First lines: "Mysticism has a history as long as the available record of man's thoughts. It is no wonder that it"... Citation: Globe Boston, MA (20 January 1957). LaFayette L. Marchand.

First lines: "When Thomas Merton entered Gethsemani Abbey forty-five years ago, he stepped into a world whose"... Citation: Books and Religion 14 (October 1986): 8-9. Karl A. Plank.

First lines: "One of the more unexpected current best-sellers is Thomas Merton's "The Seven-Storey Mountain," a"... Citation: Star Washington DC (13 march 1949). M. McG.

First lines: "Who was Thomas Merton? I don't know. I know only what I've pieced together from the"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 29:1 (Spring 2004): 29-32 [online].

First lines: "Published in 1953, this book reached the reviewer accompanied by ten profuse passages of praise for"... Citation: Integrity 8.10 (July 1954): 41-42. Richard T.A. Murphy OP.

First lines: "'America is discovering contemplation,' Thomas Merton remarked in The Seven Storey Mountain." Citation: America 81 (30 April 1949): 164. Edward Duff, SJ.

First lines: "'Here time has no meaning, their goal is eternity.' This is what Shirley Burden has undertaken to"... Citation: Catholic World (September 1960). Euphemia Van Rensselar Wyatt.

First lines: "Mr. Burden was given an unusual opportunity in freedom of access to the Abbey of Our Lady of"... Citation: Religious Books - Catholic (15 March 1960).

First lines: "Shirley Burden is an artist with a camera. God is My Life is an exquisitely beautiful volume of"... Citation: Sign 39 (July 1960): 60. Charles A. Cuneo.

First lines: "This is a book of zany, idiosyncratic letters between two monks, one living in a Trappist community"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (21 January 1979): D5. John Filiatreau.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's accidental death in Bangkok, Thailand, Dec 12, 1968, sent shock waves around the"... Citation: Catholic Bulletin St. Paul Minn (25 September 1969) and Catholic Bulletin W. (26 September 1969). Anne Cawley Boardman.

First lines: "Geography of Holiness demonstrates once again the genius of Thomas Merton, who can affect us through"... Citation: America 144.23 (13 June 1981): 489-490.

First lines: "The autobiography of a thirty-three year old poet who is also a Trappist monk in the monastery of"... Citation: New Yorker (9 October 1948).

First lines: "What is likely to strike the general reader first is the heterogeneity of this collection. It"... Citation: Sewanee Review 72.4 (Autumn 1964): 715-718. Sister Mary Gilbert SNJM.

First lines: "What is likely to strike the general reader first is the heterogeneity of this collection. It"... Citation: Sewanee Review 72.4 (Autumn 1964): 715-718. Sister Mary Gilbert.

First lines: "What is likely to strike the general reader first is the heterogeneity of this collection." Citation: Sewanee Review 72 (Autumn 1964): 715-718. Sister Mary Gilbert, SNJM.

First lines: "At this season dawn comes to Houston around 6 a.m. Even in the thickest part of the city the mad"... Citation: Post Houston, TX (13 March 1949). Bill Bedell.

First lines: "Out of the centuries-laden silence of a Trappist monastery has come a new book as modern as a"... Citation: Post Denver Colo (2 January 1949). George M'Williams.

First lines: "One summer at the Abbey of Our Lady of New Melleray a Trappist was showing me around the raw"... Citation: Commonweal 57 (27 February 1953): 526-529. Henry Rago.

First lines: "This publishing feat edited from Merton's"... Citation: Arizona Register (August 3, 1973).

First lines: "'Everybody in the universe is tongue-tied, except the priest,' Thomas Merton writes in the journal"... Citation: Saturday Review 39 (17 March 1956): 22. Riley Hughes.

First lines: "Through the years subsequent to the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain"... Citation: Renascence 12 (Spring 1960): 149-153. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.

First lines: "Through the years subsequent to the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain the paradox that was"... Citation: Renascence 12 (Spring 1960): 149-153. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "Through the years subsequent to the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain the paradox that was"... Citation: Renascence 12 (Spring 1960): 149-153. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "Through the years subsequent to the publication of The Seven Storey Mountain the paradox that was"... Citation: Renascence 12 (Spring 1960): 149-153. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "Through the years subsequent to the publication of The Seven Storey mountain the paradox that was"... Citation: Renascence 12 (Spring 1960): 149-153. Therese Lentfoehr.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book, which is to be published in Jun, deals with a man and a saint who died"...

First lines: "If any modern day mystic's name survives this century, it will be the Trappist monk Thomas Merton." Citation: Gazette Charleston WV (10 January 1965). William E. Albright Jr.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, one of the few authentic saints of our time"... Citation: Christian Living (August 1969).

First lines: "Two of the most distinguished present-day Roman Catholic writers--one American, one French--offer"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville, KY] (18 February 1962). William Habich.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's first book of poems, A Man in the Divided Sea (including his previously published"... Citation: America 79 (19 June 1948): 272-274. Francis Sweeney.

First lines: "Letters get written in quiet unguarded moments, when the writer is alone with his thoughts--"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville, KY] (16 December 2001): D4.

First lines: "To begin, I must give thanks. Redwoods Monastery’s founder, Mother Myriam Dardenne, OCSO,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 49.1 (Spring 2024): 39-43.

First lines: "The second collection of Merton's letters continues the high standard set by The Hidden"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Autumn 1989): 8-93.

First lines: "In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think"... Citation: New York Times (24 April 1949).

First lines: "In 1956, Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who has achieve world-wide fame as an author in the world"... Citation: Press Pittsburg, PA (27 November 1966). Mary O'Hara.

First lines: "'I had wondered what was holding the country together, what has been keeping the universe from"... Citation: Dispatch Columbus, OH (15 March 1959). Ann F. Wolfe.

First lines: "Thomas Merton presents a penetrating, and as usual, highly personalized by very compact, and"... Citation: Boston Mass (20 June 1954). George W. Casey.

First lines: "The talented pen of Thomas Merton has produced over 25 books, including his best-selling"... Citation: Visitor Providence RI (21 April 1967).

First lines: "About six years ago a very modern young man captured the American reading public with the story of"... Citation: Post, Boston, MA (8 March 1953). John A. Broderick.

First lines: "The books under review are recommended as in their varying ways enjoyable. They afford a selection"... Citation: Sewanee Review 55.2 (April-June 1947): 324-336. Richard Eberhart.

First lines: "It is nearly thirteen years since the death of Thomas Merton. The interest in his life and thought"... Citation: Cross Currents 31 (Spring 1981): 102-105. James S. Terry.

First lines: "We have recently had installed din our sing a Disposall, and its name has of course stirred the"... Citation: Sewanee Review 58.4 (October-December 1950): 717-727. Reed Whittemore.

First lines: "Since I wish to devote a good part of this review to Carol Hall's book, and since space is at a"... Citation: Voices 172 (May-August 1960): 39-42. Lewis Turco.

First lines: "Avant-garde poetry and prose paragraphs on the world of rock and roll, computers, drugs and demonstr"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 193 (19 February 1968): 88.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, has gathered together a new collection of his literary pieces:"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 189 (20 June 1966): 79. Barbara A. Bannon.

First lines: "William James would have found ample documentation for his "Varieties of Religious Experience in the"...

First lines: "'Depressing,' was Thomas Merton's comment when he"... Citation: The Cleveland Press (September 7, 1973): 21.

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: "John Howard Griffin, Thomas Merton's originally designated biographer, once remarked: "He literally"... Citation: America 145.3 (1-8 August 1981): 58-59. Gerald S. Twomey.

First lines: "This is not a typical Thomas Merton book. For his analytical descriptions of the modern soul in"... Citation: Ensign (30 June 1956). Rev Henry Hall.

First lines: "It is fitting that this study of the Psalms should have been made by Thomas Merton. As a Cistercian"... Citation: Renascence 7 (Winter 1954): 103-108. Sister M. Therese SDS.

First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak.

First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36. Bernard G. Prusak.

First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak.

First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak.

First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns 'Lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak.

First lines: "Writing to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an image"... Citation: Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak.

First lines: "It is most heartening in these evil days of slipshod writing and superficial thinking to come upon"... Citation: Brooklyn Daily Eagle (14 November 1948). Sister Joseph Immaculate.

First lines: "Patrick O' Connell presents us with a sacred collection of teaching notes drawn up"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 32:2 (Summer 2007): 40-41.

First lines: "The year 1968 dawned portentously for Thomas Merton. His journal entry for January 6, the feast"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 23:4 (Winter 1998): 26-30.

First lines: "New poems of Trappist convert, a prophetic outcry that defies the limitations of words; bound with"... Citation: Catholic Messenger Davenport Iowa (22 April 1948).

First lines: "This later poetry of Merton's relates with emotional power his spiritual odyssey from New York to a"... Citation: Commonweal (3 Dec 1948).

First lines: "New poems of Trappist convert, a prophetic outcry that defies the limitations of words; bound with"... Citation: Mirror [Springfield, Mass] (May 1948).

First lines: "A Trappist monk, encouraged by his superiors to pursue his art, is moving through states of 'active'"... Citation: Chronicle San Francisco California (13 June 1948).

First lines: "Glowing poems, on religious themes, by a Trappist monk." Citation: Journal [Milwaukee Wisconsin] (5 December 1948).

First lines: "thesis and antithesis have at last met to produce synthesis in modern poetry, and the result is"... Citation: Journal of Bible and Religion 17.2 (April 1949): 129. Chad Walsh.

First lines: "Of all the words that have been written on the subject of race relations, these in this new book by"... Citation: Newsday (2 January 1965): 16w. Virginia Pasley.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book which he recently finished on the anniversary of his ninth year in the"... Citation: Reporter Berlin NH (1 November 1951).

First lines: "Do most 20th century Americans care anything about human liberty and the human person? No, says"... Citation: Chronicle Houston, TX (7 February 1965).

First lines: "Brother Patrick Hart and Dr. Jonathon Montaldo have edited the life of Thomas Merton taken from"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 53.1 (March 2002): 60-73.

First lines: "Patrick F. O’Connell, Professor Emeritus of English and Theology at Gannon University, is"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 48.1 [Spring 2023]: 24-26.

First lines: "'Gott ist Tot.' When Nietzche proclaimed the expiration"... Citation: Washington Post (February 27, 1971): C4.

First lines: "This is the spiritual journal of Thomas Merton, the well-known writer. It is not a book to please"... Citation: Dublin Review 227 (Fall 1953): 314-315.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's last published book, "The Seeds of Destruction," was widely acclaimed his best. In"... Citation: News-Sentinel Fort Wayne (1 January 1966): 4a. Sister M. Friedebertha, OSF.

First lines: "In his latest book on the subject of the Eucharist, Father Merton is appalled at the degradation of"... Citation: News Charleston SC (2 September 1956). Doris Meadowcroft.

First lines: "Father Merton's most recent volume of verse confirms our convictions that he is the most important"... Citation: News Charleston SC (1 January 1950). Fred Holley.

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: "Members of the Catholic Faith will find Thomas Merton's new book inspiring reading. The famed"... Citation: news Journal Pensacola Florida (11 March 1956).

First lines: "The 20th century has concluded. Thomas Merton remains the single most influential American Catholic"... Citation: America 182.7 (4 March 2000): 23-27. Richard J. Hauser.

First lines: "This book is copyrighted by the Abbey of Our Lady of the Gethsemani, located near Louisville, KY." Citation: Journal Atlanta, GA (15 February 1953). Sam F. Lucchese.

First lines: "To be an author in a Trappist monastery is, says Thomas Merton, "to be like a duck in a chicken coop"... Citation: Star Washington DC (8 Feb 1953). M. McG.

First lines: "A Trappist monastery, one might think, would be a most unlikely place to find a poet. How could the"... Citation: Ave Maria 65 (22 February 1947): 231-234. Speer Strahan.

First lines: "It is an autobiography of a young man now a monk in the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict"... Citation: News Cleveland, OH (20 October 1948). Incomplete copy.

First lines: "Some things in God's creation are certain to make one feel good: a cold drink on a South Dakota"... Citation: Monitor [Trenton] 36.13 (27 April 1989): 6. Brian T. Olszewski.

First lines: "This book tells the story of Mother Mary Berchmans. Born in France in 1876 and educated at an"... Citation: Catholic World 168 (October 1948): 87-88. Margaret R. Grennan.

First lines: "Most of us know something about the monks of the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance, better"... Citation: Catholic Messenger (14 October 1948).

First lines: "Here is a highly satisfying book of deep spiritual significance. Its author, perhaps better known"... Citation: Louisville Times (6 August 1948). Henry Buchtal.

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: "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: "Emulation of the exact life pattern of the saints, canonized or not, is dangerous for the layman and"... Citation: Sign 28 (September 1948): 51. Fortunata Caliri.

First lines: "A detailed picture of the Trappist way--a Cistercian convent from the inside--is presented in the"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (May 1948).

First lines: "In the first of these volumes an exciting young voice speaks out - a voice humble yet authoritative"... Citation: Saturday Review of Literature [NY] (10 July 1948): 21, 26. Howard Griffin.

First lines: "In the winter of 1935 a young Columbia University student names Tom Merton was attending Communist"... Citation: Books on Trial 7 (October-November 1948): 133, 144. Helene Magaret.

First lines: "'The whole Problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to"...

First lines: "Certainly the best known Catholic writer in America today is Thomas Merton, who is Father Louis of"... Citation: Savannah News, GA (9 October 1960). Alma Thomas.