First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest and most ambitious work to date, The Ascent to Truth, is a more or less"... Citation: Catholic Messenger Davenport Ia (8 November 1951). Father John. W. Simons.
First lines: "In Thomas Merton's best seller, Seven Storey Mountain, the Catholic convert and Trappist monk told"... Citation: Inquirer Philadelphia Pa (21 October 1951). Katherine Dunlap.
First lines: "We live in a time of interest not only in the field of religious reading generally and of curiosity"... Citation: Best Sellers 11.156 [Scranton Pa] (15 November 1951): 156. D. Bernard Theall, OSB.
First lines: "Perhaps no one has gained a wider hearing among English-speaking readers on mysticism than the"... Citation: America (24 November 1951).
First lines: "The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" and "The Waters of Siloe," who put on the Trappist habit"... Citation: Oklahoman Oklahoma City Oklahoma (16 December 1951). Welford Inge.
First lines: "A Devout member of the order of the Discalced Carmelites, Father Merton is convinced that only"... Citation: US Quarterly Book Review (December 1951).
First lines: "In this book Father Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain, sets forth the thesis that only a"... Citation: Library Journal NY City (1 September 1952). L.S.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book, "The Ascent to Truth," will be published in September (Harcourt, Brace)"... Citation: News Newark NJ (26 July 1951).
First lines: "Brother Merton's thesis is that the contemporary world needs "a spiritual revolution" and that its"…
First lines: "If in his Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton gathered an audience and set the stage for that"... Citation: Renascence 4 (Spring 1952): 207-209. Sister M. Therese, SDS.
First lines: "This important book is the complement of the author's Seeds of Contemplation. All readers of the latter book should read this." Citation: Dublin Review 226 (1st quarter 1952): 74-77.
First lines: "The growth of interest in mysticism"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2619 (Apr. 11 1952): 256.
First lines: "The scene was Thailand's capital of Bangkok. The date was December 10, 1968. The occasion was a"... Citation: Pittsburgh Catholic (24 August 1973). Fr. Joseph Gallagher.
First lines: "In 1968 Thomas Merton travelled to Bangkok to address a conference of Asian monastic orders. He had"... Citation: Vajra Bodhi Sea Cold Mountain Monastery Sino-American Buddhist Association San Francisco 42 (October 1973).
First lines: "If you read this book just to find out whether or not Thomas Merton really wished to leave his"... Citation: St. Louis Post Dispatch (20 November 1973). Harry J. Cargas.
First lines: "In 1968 the Poet and Trappist monk, Thomas Merton set out on a journey to Asia, partly to attend"... Citation: Pacific Affairs 46.4 (Winter 1973-1974): 570. George Woodcock.
First lines: "To a culture which knew nothing about it, Thomas Merton reluctantly came to realize that in order to"... Citation: Sewanee Review 81.4 (Autumn 1973): 845-847. James York Glimm.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was deeply concerned with Oriental spirituality and mysticism, particularly in the"... Citation: Horizons 1 (Fall 1974): 149. Frederick J. Kelly SJ.
First lines: "What may one look forward to in this beautiful and latest Merton volume? Insight, of course: "For"... Citation: Worship 48 (April 1974): 251-254. Jane Marie Richardson SL.
First lines: "Merton's memory will be for every linked with the A.I.M. since his last writings were occasioned by"... Citation: Bulletin de L'Aide a L'Implantation Monastique 17 (1974): 111-113. Jean Leclercq OSB.
First lines: "This fine book is the journal of Thomas Merton's trip to the East in the fall of 1968. Merton died"... Citation: Catholic Worker 39 (October-November 1973): 5. Sister Donald Corcoran OSB.
First lines: "A Zen saying which intrigued Thomas Merton was 'Where do you go from the top of a thirty-foot pole?'"... Citation: St. Louis Globe Democrat (14-15 July 1973): 4E. John Heidenry.
First lines: "Thomas Merton became Father Louis, a Trappist monk, in 1942. He died in 1968 while on an Asian"... Citation: Newsday (26 August 1973):5. Silvia Tennenbaum.
First lines: "This beautiful travel account begins with an eastward flight from Honolulu in 1968 by the late"... Citation: Prabuddha Bharata [Calcutta] 83 (July 1978): 318-319. A.S. Parameswar.
First lines: "The publication of this journal of Thomas Merton's last months, four and one-half years after his"... Citation: Sisters Today 45 (December 1973): 235-236. Frederic J. Kelly.
First lines: "Asian Journal has been on the book stands for several months now and, according to my bookshop"... Citation: Spiritual Life 20.1 (Spring 1974): 85-87. Daniel Yeaton.
First lines: "Father Merton, the writer and Trappist monk who explored Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 203 (April 9 1973): 62-63.
First lines: "The collection of articles edited by Professor Hick offers substantial food for thought"... Citation: Blackfriars 56 (October 1975) 471-474.
First lines: "'Depressing,' was Thomas Merton's comment when he"... Citation: The Cleveland Press (September 7, 1973): 21.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, poet turned Trappist monk"... Citation: Press-Telegram (Long Beach) (August 8, 1973).
First lines: "The curious, and hopeful, thing about the Watergate hearings in the Senate"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (22 July 1973).
First lines: "Thomas Merton first reached the public eye with an"... Citation: Sunday Record (July 22, 1973).
First lines: "Thomas Merton was many persons during his life span"... Citation: San Francisco Examiner (July 20, 1973).
First lines: "Thomas Merton - convert, Trappist monk and hermit"... Citation: Southern Cross [San Diego CA] (August 9, 1973).
First lines: "This selection from the notebooks of the widely"... Citation: Sunday Oregonian (September 9, 1973).
First lines: "Dr. Rosselli makes a good point when he describes"... Citation: Country Life (June 20, 1974).
First lines: "Le souvenir de Merton est desormais associe au now de l'AIM,"... Citation: A.I.M. Bulletin [France].
First lines: "Some books are footprints, the author saying I have been here and am moving on. Others are"... Citation: Kirkus Reviews (March 15, 1973).
Reviews of At Home in the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
First lines: "The splendid thing about Thomas Merton's monastic writings is the transparence with which the"... Citation: Worship 31 (May 1957): 369-370. Hilary Thimmesh OSB.
First lines: "In two myths, a parable, a broadside and a meditative study, Thomas Merton presents the latest"... Citation: Jacket blurb from New Seeds of Contemplation.
Reviews of Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton.
First lines: "Beholding Paradise, edited by Paul M. Pearson, is a gem of unusual brilliance. Its"... Citation: Theological Studies 84.2 (June 2023): 380-382.
First lines: "In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that Thomas Merton has been my anam cara since 2008"... Citation: The Merton Annual 34 (2021): 235-239.
First lines: "Many years ago America magazine began to publish my poetry because of the interest of the poetry editor at"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 43.31 (6 July 2007): 19.
First lines: "Thomas Merton left us many writings on prayer." Citation: Weavings 23.2 (March/April 2008): 46-47.
First lines: "Those who heard Kathleen Deignan"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 14.2 (Advent 2007): 41-43.
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First lines: "To the Editor:--Last December I read Thomas Merton's Bread in the Wilderness with much interest and"... Citation: Worship (November 1954): 550-551. M. Ohligslager OSB.
First lines: "Here is a genuinely inspiring book. The Psalms are its theme. It does not offer a detailed"... Citation: Commonweal 59 (February 19 1954): 506-507.
First lines: "This is a reprint of a Merton book that has been previously released in a couple of different formats." Citation: Monos 9.4 (Jul/Aug 1997): 9.
First lines: "One had the impression that this short book of reflections has perhaps"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 9.105 (March 1955): 432.
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First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest book doesn't lend itself to reviewing. One way of describing it: poetry and p"... Citation: Jubilee 15 (April 1968): 45. Maureen Sullivan.
First lines: "In Cables to the Ace which the author subtitles "Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding," we observe"... Citation: Spirit 35 (July 1968): 93. Aloysius M. Sullivan.
First lines: "Thomas Merton became master of novices at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky in 1955 and held that demanding"... Citation: Sobornost 27.2 (2005): 85-88.
First lines: "These transcribed and carefully edited lecture notes are quite valuable as an overview"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 41.1 (2006): 98-102.
First lines: "This book is worth waiting fifty years for: as we are privileged with Scripture to live in"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:2 (Summer 2005): 29-30.
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First lines: "These three new Merton books arrived in the tenth anniversary year of his death, 1978. The first of"... Citation: Spirituality Today 31.3 (September 1979): 270-273. Daniel J. O'Hanlon SJ.
First lines: "It is still disconcerting to realize"... Citation: The Pilot Boston Mass (16 February 1979): 8.
First lines: "This small book is a collection of the"... Citation: Library Journal (December 1, 1978).
First lines: "Thomas Merton was an American Trappist monk who died in 1969 while"... Citation: Madison Review of Books (January 1, 1979).
Reviews of Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7.
First lines: "Jonathan Montaldo carefully and creatively arranges Thomas Merton's insights in"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 33:3 (Fall 2008): 36-37.
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Reviews of Cisterican Fathers and Forefathers: Essays and Conferences.
First lines: "Merton was very fortunate in his editors (e.g., Robert Giroux; Br." Citation: American Benedictine Review 70.1 (March 2019): 120-121.
First lines: "Thomas Merton served as Novice Master at the Abbey of Gethsemani from 1955-1965. In"... Citation: Catholic Books Review. [online]. [Accessed August 14, 2019].
First lines: "For Thomas Merton, as for any writer, writing is as much about presenting himself as it is about"... Citation: Reading Religion (March 22, 2022).
First lines: "In a conference on St. Anselm of Canterbury given to novices at the Abbey of Gethsemani,"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 43.4 (Winter 2018): 32-33.
First lines: "We have evidently not heard the last of Thomas Merton. Indeed, the Cistercian Studies Series,"... Citation: Tablet [London] 226 (15 April 1972): 351. Illtud Evans, OP.
First lines: "Thomas Merton prepared a"... Citation: Catholic Library World 89.2 (December 2018): 123.
First lines: "As one might expect from almost anything by Thomas Merton, The"... Citation: Horizons 46.1 (June 2019): 176-178.
First lines: "To many Fr. Thomas Merton was an irreplacable man." Citation: The Tablet 223.6748 (20 September 1969): 928.
First lines: "The Climate of Monastic Prayer is the original title of the book published in"... Citation: The Merton Annual 32 (2019): 242-247.
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First lines: "Thomas Merton's "Selected Poems" is a book in which the appendix demands to be read first. Merton"... Citation: Poetry 96 (September 1960): 387-391. Carol Johnson.
First lines: "The recent numerous reprints and translations of articles by Thomas Merton in such foreign"... Citation: Renascence 15 (Fall 1962): 46-50. Sister M. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.
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: "Older men have been attracted to younger women before, patients to their nurses. Poems have been"... Citation: Commonweal 113.19 (7 November 1986): 602. Paul Wilkes.
First lines: "In Kentucky poetry circles "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton" is certainly an exciting"... Citation: Ashland Daily Independent (25 December 1977). Thelma Scott Kiser.
First lines: "Merton's poems, covering a wide range of social and religious issues, illustrate his humanistic and"... Citation: Library Journal 103 (15 March 1978): 668. Carolyn M. Craft.
First lines: "'Geography comes to an end,/Compass has lost all earthly north,/Horizons have no meaning/Nor roads"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (9 January 1978). Robert Kirsch.
First lines: "In one of the many books (Contemplation in a World of Action) that appeared after his bizarre death"... Citation: Malahat Review [Victoria, British Columbia] 46 (April 1978): 148-151. George Woodcock.
First lines: "When New Directions published Thomas Merton's first collection in 1944, Robert Lowell remarked that"... Citation: Milwaukee Journal Book Review (16 February 1978): 23. Sister Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.
First lines: "The potpourri of books listed above represents one small eddy in the stream of books and monographs"... Citation: Parabola 6 (Winter 1981): 109-113. Lawrence S. Cunningham.
First lines: "It is no accident that there is more bad religious poetry written than bad poetry of any other kind"... Citation: Washington Post (25 December 1977). Josephine Jacobsen.
First lines: "This massive collection contains all of the poetry"... Citation: ALA Booklist (March 1, 1978).
First lines: "This volume is the twelfth in the series 30 Days with a Great Spiritual Teacher"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 73.1 (March 2022): 115-116.
First lines: "Compassionate Fire, edited by Robert A. Wild, a diocesan priest and the postulator for"... Citation: American Catholic Studies 121.2 (2010): 102-105.
First lines: "This slim volume brings together for the first time"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 45.4 (2010): 495-497.
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Reviews of Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
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: "The first of the Thomas Merton books that I read was the Seven Storey Mountain in 1948. I got in the"... Citation: Book Week 4 (27 November 1966). Warren Coffey.
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: "Thomas Merton was born in France of English and American parents, came to the United States"... Citation: Dayton Daily News Dayton OH (22 January 1967). Tom Carroll.
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.