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First lines: "Whether Thomas Merton writes about Boris Pasternak or a Renaissance hermit he applies as touchstone"... Citation: New Orleans Picayune (5 February 1961). James W. Nolan.

First lines: "The road which Thomas Merton bids us travel for peace and freedom is a simple one, but hard for"...

First lines: "The problem of the person and his relation to the social organization is the main theme running"... Citation: News Detroit MI (6 November 1960).

First lines: "Thomas Merton travelled extensively the last year of his life. He twice stayed at Our Lady of the Redwoods"... Citation: The Journal of Social Encounters 8.1 (2024): 216-228.

First lines: "Who among us hasn't wished at some point to eavesdrop on the conversation of great writers? Those"... Citation: New Leader 80.5 (24 March 1997): 13-14. Phoebe Pettingell.

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: "One of the least understood"... Citation: The Monitor (February 8, 1957).

First lines: "Thomas Merton holds sway as"... Citation: Kentucky Monthly (May 2015): 43.

First lines: "Readers of Thomas Merton already have many reasons to be grateful to Br. Patrick Hart, OCSO,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 39.4 (Winter 2014): 33-34.

First lines: "While Thomas Merton is best known for his spiritual autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 46.4 (Winter 2021): 26-28.

First lines: "A spiritual pilgrim, so the story goes, went to an elder and asked for a word to explain the world." Citation: Courier Journal (16 February 1991): A14. Clyde F. Crews.

First lines: "The life of the American monk and spiritual"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 4974 (Aug. 14 1998): 31.

First lines: "The life of the American monk and spiritual"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 4974 (Aug. 14 1998): 31.

First lines: "While most "in" poets of our time are either talking to one another or to the "in" critics--a"... Citation: Commonweal 79 (28 February 1964): 670. Thomas P. McDonnell.

First lines: "This pocket-size original contains poetry by Thomas Merton, plus poetic prose and one long letter"... Citation: Review for Religious 24.2 (March 1965): 330. J. Bowman.

First lines: "There are two Thomas Mertons: the first, a careful scribe well aware of what he's doing, who turns"... Citation: Labor Herald Allentown PA (18 December 1963). Thomas G. Bruni.

First lines: "Father M Louis or Thomas Merton as he became known, was a Roman Catholic monk, poet, and"... Citation: Reform (june 2002): 33.

First lines: "In the world of the spirit there is no isolationism. "We are all members one of another," St. Paul"... Citation: Saturday Review 38 (14 May 1955): 19,39. Ann F. Wolfe.

First lines: "Sixteen years have passed since Elected Silence cast its sudden light on the drab landscape"... Citation: Tablet [London] (12 November 1966): 9.

First lines: "Sixteen years have passed since Elected Silence cast its sudden light on the drab landscape"... Citation: Tablet [London] 220 (12 November 1966): 1269-170.

First lines: "It's author, Thomas Merton, has the unusual distinction of being the author of two books which are"... Citation: News Jackson Miss (15 January 1950).

First lines: "'Chrzescijanin przyszlosci bedzie mistykiem, albo nie bedzie go wcale'-"... Citation: Nowe Ksiazki 1 (2004): 63.

First lines: "It is an intriguing book. Thomas Merton: Eighteen Poems is a publication of New Directions." Citation: Merton Seasonal 11:4 (Fall 1986): 14-15.

First lines: "Now published for the first time, this novel was written in the summer of 1941, shortly before"... Citation: Inquirer Philadelphia, PA (10 August 1969). Miles A. Smith Also see 05, 10, 15, 19, 21a, and 21b.

First lines: "The accidental death of Thomas Merton last year represents a significant loss to contemporary"... Citation: Banner Nashville TN (25 July 1969). Anthony Forbes. Duplicate on item 23.

First lines: "The appearance of a new book by Thomas Merton is always an event. The reading public has come to"... Citation: Times Dispatch Richmond, VA (15 March 1959). M. O'C. Moriarty.

First lines: "Kolejna w polskim przekladzie ksiazka Mertona,"... Citation: Tygodnik Powszeclmy/Ksiazki w Tygodniku 49 (22 Februrary 2004): 16.

First lines: "The personal journal of Father Louis (Thomas Merton) of Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky provides a"... Citation: News Detroit, MI (15 February 1959). Josef Mossman.

First lines: "'Przetrwanie czy proproctwo?' to kolejny tom listow slawnego amerykanskiego trapisty Thomas Mertona." Citation: Wiez 48.7 (July 2005): 143-145.

First lines: "Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the more intriguing religious figures of the 20th"... Citation: Mobile Register [Mibile, AL] (31 December 2000): 1D.

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: "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: "*This is a collection of essays by the distinguished author on various subjects, related loosely"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (1 October 1960).

First lines: "'Meant to stimulate thought and to awaken some degree of spiritual awareness,' this book is made up"... Citation: Ave Maria 93 (4 March 1961): 27.. R.J. Schoeck.

First lines: "This book by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" consists of a series of essays, the"... Citation: Charleston news SC (18 December 1960). Alice M. Harding.

First lines: "When Fr. Merton entered the isolation of a contemplative monastery twenty years ago he was already"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin 28 (15 September 1960): 833.

First lines: "In this Collection of random essays, provocative Father Louis, OCSO, has some trenchant things to"... Citation: America 104 (21 January 1961). Patricia Barrett, RSCJ.

First lines: "This is a selection of essays on various topics. The longest piece is devoted to 'The Pasternak"... Citation: Ave Maria (11 February 1961).

First lines: "In Disputed Questions Merton turns to have a look at the world from which his journey has led him." Citation: Review for Religious 21.5 (September 1962): 483.

First lines: "Father Thomas Merton, who has gained literary fame, emphasizes the relation of the individual to"... Citation: Buffalo Evening News (9 December 1961). P.A.L.

First lines: "It would by interesting to know whether Thomas Merton will be remembered as a sociological"... Citation: Sign 40 (January 1961): 60. John J. Kirvan, CSP.

First lines: "Even on such explosive questions as contemporary Christian art, Father Merton writes with charity as"... Citation: Commonweal (24 February 1961).

First lines: "More than a surprise, this book is an astonishment. Thomas Merton destroyed three of his unpublished"... Citation: St Petersburg Times (20 July 1969). John Leonard. Also see 9.

First lines: "In modern American society the idea of a man shutting himself up in a monastery is considered odd,"... Citation: News Savannah, GA (6 January 1957). Katherine M. Scardino.

First lines: "Of the dozen-odd theological texts this reviewer has studied "The Ascent to Truth" is the first to"... Citation: SaSkatoon Star Phoenix Sask., Canada (27 October 1951). J.W.T.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book was finished on the anniversary of his ninth year in the Cistercian order." Citation: Dispatch Columbus O (14 October 1951). Gerladine C. Harris.

First lines: "After four years of waiting, the second volume of the Merton letters, The Road to Joy, is"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Autumn 1989): 10-12.

First lines: "When "the Seven Storey Mountain," the autobiography of Thomas Merton, poet and man of the world who"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee Wis (8 February 1953). Louise Cattoi.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest volume of poetry is concerned, not surprisingly, with the themes that have"... Citation: New York Times 54 (27 November 1949). Milton Crane. Copy on item#4a.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest volume of poetry is concerned, not surprisingly, with the themes that have"... Citation: New York Times 54 (27 November 1949). Milton Crane. Copy on item#6.

First lines: "From his monastery in Gethsemane, Ky., Thomas Merton sees the world today from a somewhat unusual"... Citation: Chicago Tribune (7 March 1965). Genevieve Casey.

First lines: "'No Man is an Island' by Thomas Merton has been published by Dell in a paper bound reprint edition." Citation: World Tulsa OK (12 May 1957). H.B. Wills.

First lines: "To defend one's faith is to defend one's freedom and at least implicitly the freedom of everyone"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 20:1 (Winter 1995): 20-22.

First lines: "Reading the fifth and final volume of Thomas Merton's letters, Witness to Freedom, is a moving"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 20.1 (Winter 1995): 20-22.

First lines: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth"... Citation: New York Times (3 October 1948).

First lines: "I recall with great pleasure the moment in life in which I discovered, sitting on the booksellers"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 20.4 (Autumn 1995): 13-15. Paul J. Spaeth.

First lines: "By now the name of Thomas Merton needs no introduction. He is Father Louis, OCSO, the Trappist monk"... Citation: Inquirer Philadelphia PA (16 October 1949). James B. Kelley.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, believes that, like Jonah in the whale, he is traveling toward his"... Citation: Star Kansas City Kansas (28 March 1953). Donald D. Jones.

First lines: "The Canadian West Coast has done much to encourage and promote the visionary"... Citation: Pacific Rim Review of Books 2 (Autumn 2005): 7.

First lines: "Dancing in the Water of Life is the fifth volume of the journals of Thomas Merton, the late Trappist"... Citation: Palm Beach Post (28 December 1997). Patrick Toomey Jr.

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: "Dancing in the Water of Life is the fifth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals and covers his"... Citation: Heythrop Journal 40:3 (July 1999): 360-361. Paul M. Pearson.

First lines: "Dancing in the Water of Life is the fifth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals and covers his"... Citation: Heythrop Journal 40.3 (1999): 360-361. Paul M. Pearson.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, professor of literature, convert to Roman Catholicism, Trappist monk, acknowledged"... Citation: America 178.18 (23 May 1998): 31-33 Nancy C. Ring.

First lines: "This next-to-last volume of the famous Trappist monk' personal journals covers the years before and"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 244.15 (14 April 1997): 69.

First lines: "Not only Catholics have bought this Trappist monk's two popular books Seven Storey Mountain and The"... Citation: Herald Miami Florida (8 February 1953).

First lines: "Reading is my hobby, my vocation"... Citation: Commonweal (December 7, 1973): 269-270.

First lines: "The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton's account of his early life in America"... Citation: Tablet [London] 230 (7 February 1976): 140.

First lines: "The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton's account of his early life in America, France and England"... Citation: Tablet [London] 230 (7 February 1976): 140.

First lines: "Echoing Silence is a book that many people have been waiting for without knowing it." Citation: Merton Seasonal 32:3 (Fall 2007): 31-32.

First lines: "A little more about Thomas Merton from whose "The Sign of Jonas" excerpts appear today in "This Week"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (8 March 1953).

First lines: "Those interested in Thomas Merton will be grateful for this handsome volume that reproduces the"... Citation: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 42.3 (September 1974): 593. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "'Right now my knowledge is partial, but one day I will know in the same way that I am known,'--so,"... Citation: Encounter 31 (Summer 1970): 292. Robert M. Cooper.

First lines: "This book could easily be passed off with the usual clichés of the reviewer: "Written for monks and"... Citation: America 121 (25 October 1969): 366, 368. Philip M. Stark SJ.

First lines: "These nineteen capsules on prayer offer a nourishment beyond their modest length. Remarkable for"... Citation: Worship 45 (August-September 1971): 45-46. Jane Marie Richardson SL.

First lines: "'Thomas Merton is dead.' The news was electrifying. If this little book would have been precious in"... Citation: Theological Studies 31 (March 1970): 207-208. Basil Pennington OCSO.

First lines: "If there are those who judge that the monastic and eremitical life is either a quaint ecclesiastical"... Citation: America 124 (8 May 1971): 490-491. Peter J. Fleming.

First lines: "The sixties were a time when American youth engaged this society in a moral confrontation and"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (14 March 1971): 34-35. Julius Lester.

First lines: "Renewal for enclosed orders, more particularly the Trappists, is not the same as for active"... Citation: Review for Religious 30.5 (September 1971): 935. Sister P. Stork.

First lines: "The Cistercian monk who wrote the immensely popular "Seven Storey Mountain," now with his persuasive"... Citation: Globe Boston Mass (7 October 1951). LaFayette L. Marchand.

First lines: "The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" has brought together in this handsomely printed book a"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (21 August 1949). George N. Shuster.

First lines: "Fr. Louis' ascent to ultimate truth, which is God, is by the path of contemplation. To guide the"... Citation: Republican Springfield Mass (October). J.C.C.

First lines: "This book by Thomas Merton has been a long time"... Citation: Expository Times 115.10 (July 2004): 349.

First lines: "By the author of "The Silent Life" and "The Living Bread," here are further philosophical thoughts"... Citation: Advertiser Montgomery, AL (8 June 1958). M.

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: "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: "The Trappist monk who wrote "The Seven Storey Mountain" about his conversion to Catholicism now has"... Citation: Bee Sacramento CA (4 June 1964). P.W.

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: "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: "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: "The conjectures of Thomas Merton about the world of the '60s are drawn from notebooks the monk has"... Citation: Chimes Quarterly [St Mary's College] (Summer 1967): 278-280. Ann Schnaubelt.

First lines: "In the interval since that rather noisy book Elected Silence we have grown so used to being shouted"... Citation: New Blackfriars 49 (September 1968): 665-666. Aelred Squire, OP.

First lines: "Father Merton, even when he is writing casual notes, is always interesting and provocative. He"... Citation: Newsday (7 January 1967). Ian Chips.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was catapulted into international literary prominence by his autobiographical Seven"... Citation: Sign 46 (February 1967): 58. Peter Thomas Rohrback, OCD.

First lines: "It is a relief to have this book in full form to dispel the shrillness of the excerpts published in"... Citation: America 115 (10 December 1966). Philip M. Stark.

First lines: "In the past year, activity surrounding Thomas Merton as a certifiable public personality has been"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 10:3 (Summer 1985): 7-11 [online]. [Accessed March 7th, 2017].

First lines: "Exceptional importance, deriving both from significance of subject matter and from authority of"... Citation: Christian Century 88 (3 March 1971): 300.

First lines: "This is Thomas Merton's thirty-first book and probably best represents his thought. As a Trappist"... Citation: Globe Democrat St Louis MO (25 December 1966). Harry J. Cargas.

First lines: "Thomas Merton who is Father Louis of the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance, has"... Citation: Gazette Cedar Rapids IA (26 February 1956).

First lines: "This is delightful reading. It includes meditations, collections, descriptions of particular moments"... Citation: Newark News (26 February 1967). Gertrude Pasley.