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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.

Reviews of The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemai.

First lines: "In December 1967 and again in may 1968, Thomas Merton hosted gatherings of about a dozen prioresses"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 101.1 (June 1993): 48-50. Patrick F. O'Connell.

First lines: "Abbot Flavian Burns once remarked that Father Louis could give a conference/ chapter talk"every"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 17:3 (Summer 1992): 23-24.

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First lines: "The popularity of Thomas Merton's autobiographical and contemplative prose works has resulted in"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville] (21 April 1957).William Habich.

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: "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: "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.

Reviews of Survival or Prophecy?: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Jean Leclercq.

First lines: "This exchange of letters between Merton, the well-known American Trappist, and Leclercq, a French Benedictine"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 249.26 (1 July 2002): 72-73.

First lines: "Early on in his monastic life Thomas Merton began to research early monasticism." Citation: Monos 16.4 (July-August 2003): 11.

First lines: "This is the seventeenth and most recent offering in Cistercian Publications' exceptional"... Citation: Spiritus 9.2 (Fall 2009): 251-253.

First lines: "Besides being the title of this book, "Survival or Prophecy?" is the monastic question of our day." Citation: American Benedictine Review 55.3 (September 2004): 341-343.

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

Reviews of The Tears of the Blind Lions.

First lines: "The Tears of the Blind Lion by Thomas Merton (New Directions. $.50) is the third book of poems from"... Citation: America (13 May 1950).

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: "Thomas Merton is widely read as the author of two recent books, "The Seven Storey Mountain" and "The"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee (20 November 1949). John Pick.

First lines: "In this collection of poems the author has revealed more of himself than he did in his other books." Citation: News Birmingham (24 December 1949). Sister Therese, OSB.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, best known as the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," is also an excellent poet." Citation: Express San Antonio (27 November 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's small new book of verse-the verse of one "Planted in the night of contemplation / Se"... Citation: Courant Hartford Conn (27 November 1949). George Brandon Saul.

First lines: "New poems by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain." Also available as a pamphlet in an envelope"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (October 1949).

First lines: "The lyrics in these several books--whose authors have all contributed to The Catholic World"... Citation: Catholic World 170 (February 1950): 397-398.

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First lines: "Robert Bridges once remarked that Gerard Hopkins' "Wreck of the Deutschland" lay in the very"... Citation: Thought 20 (September 1945): 543-544. Daniel J. Honan.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's career has been varied and spectacular: Cambridge University, the New Yorker and the"... Citation: Commonweal 42 (22 June 1945): 240-242. Robert Lowell.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's work is also, in large part, religious"... Citation: Journal of Religion, 26.1 (Jan. 1946): 75.

Reviews of Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters / edited by David D. Cooper.

First lines: "New Direction, an enterprise created by Laughlin, has served as the publishing house for many"... Citation: Library Journal 122.12 (1 July 1997): 88. Mark Woodhouse.

First lines: "Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was one of the more important American theologians and poets of his time,"... Citation: Bloomsbury Review (July-August 1989): 12.

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First lines: "At the time of Thomas Merton's death in 1968 it was said that America lost one of her most"... Citation: American Ecclesiastical Review 165 (November 1971): 208-209. John J. Higgins SJ.

First lines: "For Thomas Merton the word "peace" was more than a utopian concept or a pious platitude. It was a"... Citation: Pax Christi Bulletin [London] 119 (Autumn 1972): 3-4. Richard [Columban] Weber OCSO. Also see 03, 04.

First lines: "In this comprehensive selection of Thomas Merton's writings on peace, Gordon Zahn focuses on five"... Citation: Sign 51 (November 1971): 48. Thomas Heath OP.

First lines: "This is a selection of Thomas Merton's most important"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 290. [152].

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First lines: "Basically, A Thomas Merton Reader is a literary and philosophical journey that seeks to carry its"... Citation: Book blurb from dust jacket.

First lines: "Some writers are born to be anthologized. Others achive this distinction. Still others are thrust"... Citation: New York Times [1923-Current file] (2 December 1962): ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008).

First lines: "The full force of the Merton message will be felt for the first time by most readers in this"... Citation: Commonweal 77 (22 February 1963): 575.

First lines: "In 1962 McDonnell edited an early Thomas"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 9.4 (1974). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 213. [126].

Reviews of Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master: The Essential Writings.

First lines: "This reader contains sizable portions of representative texts written over the course of Merton's"... Citation: Library Journal 117.12 (1 July 1992): 89. Carol J. Lichtenberg.

First lines: "This may be the book bargain of the year: two books in one modestly priced volume." Citation: Merton Annual 6: 203-205 [online].

First lines: "Far more than most writers, monastic or otherwise, Thomas Merton was quite literally"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 45.1 (2010): 109-110.

Reviews of Thomas Merton: A Selection from his Writings.

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First lines: "Readers who are familiar with Merton scholarship will remember that Walter Capps wrote one"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 298-300.

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: "A spiritual book in that it is exclusively concerned with things of the spirit, this is a profoundly"... Citation: Globe Boston, MA (22 June 1958). LaFayette L. Marchand.

First lines: "In an age when totalitarianism has striven, in every way to devaluate and degrade the human person,"... Citation: Globe Sioux City, Iowa (15 May 1958).

First lines: "A book of meditations that offers conviction for all who have the courage to look into the infinite;"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (25 May 1958).

First lines: "A small volume filled with a wealth of rich thought, this is not only a book of meditations for"... Citation: News Sentinel (24 May 1958). Sister M. Friedebertha.

First lines: "This is a little book of meditations from the famous Trappist monk who seems able to turn out one"... Citation: Tribute Minneapolis MN (29 June 1958). J.M.

First lines: "this newest volume of Thomas Merton is a slim collection of reflections on the life of the spirit." Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin 26 (15 May 1958): 373.

First lines: "Fr. Thomas Merton tells us that these notes were written in 1953-4, and concern the contemplative"... Citation: Month [London] 21 (March 1959): 194-195.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book is a cheap half guinea's worth, and one of those book the reader will wish to keep close to him." Citation: Tablet [London] (13 December 1958): 10.

First lines: "Each new book by Thomas Merton"... Citation: Catholic Worker XXIV.11 (June 1958): 1, 7.

First lines: "The selections in this little book are divided into four"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 286. [148-149].

First lines: "Lent is a time when we often hunger for a deeper and more separate time of solitude, a time to grow"... Citation: America 176.5. (15 February 1997): 30. Emilie Griffin.

First lines: "The hardest part of preparing Thomas Merton's journals for publication was deciphering"... Citation: Georgia Bulletin (9 January 1997): 7.

First lines: "In this fourth tome of Merton's seven volume saga, we observe a gifted but sometimes adolescent"... Citation: Merton Annual 10: 334-338 [online].

First lines: "During the years 1964-65, Merton sought, and was finally given, permission to live alone in his"... Citation: Library Journal 113.13 (August 1988): 164. Carol J. Lichtenberg.

First lines: "George E. Thompson, in a sermon published in the November/December 1988 issue of Pulpit"... Citation: Pulpit Digest 69.1 (October 1989): 77-78.

First lines: "On July 5 in 1965, Thomas Merton wrote, 'Enough is evident in this journal to destroy me forever.'"... Citation: Other Side 26.1 (January-February 1990): 32-35.

First lines: "Reading these two boooks in the space of a few days is like listening in on a conversation between"... Citation: Topeka Capital-Journal (16 April 1989): 7G.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was a devotedly secular writer and intellectual who became a Catholic and then a"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 233.23 (10 June 1988): 62.

First lines: "'It seems to me the most mature writing you have done,' so Naomi Burton Stone, the editor of this"... Citation: Priests and People 4.4 (April 1990): 161.

First lines: "The phenomenon of Thomas Merton increases in interest with every eloquent book that comes out of his"... Citation: Orate Fratres 24 (January 1950): 94-95. David R. King.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and author of two books, will have his third brought out by Harcourt,"... Citation: New York Times (8 July 1949).

First lines: "A companion volume to Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," will be"... Citation: Oklahoman [Oklahoma City] (14 August 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, whose "Seven Storey Mountain" still makes the best-seller lists, has a companion"... Citation: Chronicle San Francisco CA (20 August 1949).

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First lines: "Critical interest in Thomas Merton has grown steadily since his death in 1968. Best known for his"... Citation: Christian Century 98 (2 December 1981): 1266-1277. Robert Kaftan.

First lines: "This collection of prefaces for foreign editions of Merton's books is valuable for several reasons." Citation: Resources for American Literary Study 11.2 (Autumn 1981): 341-343. Victor A. Kramer.

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Reviews of Ishi Means Man.

First lines: "Many books written by Thomas Merton are still to be published - even now, eight"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 12 (September 24 1976):18.

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First lines: "Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's death eight hundred one years ago inspired the writing of an encyclical"... Citation: Courant Harftford, Conn (1 August 1954). Leander W. Smith. 2 copies, one on original newsprint.

First lines: "On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Pius XII, in May, 1953,"... Citation: Globe Boston Mass (11 July 1954). LaFayette L. Marchand. 2 copies, one on original newsprint.

First lines: "The life history of St. Bernard, the great preacher of the Crusades, together with a study of his"... Citation: News Detroit Mich (27 March 1955).

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: "Those who have come to expect that Thomas Merton's book will have a message to the faithful bearing"...

First lines: "This is a title frequently given to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who,"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 9.105 (March 1955): 436.

First lines: "From Learning to Love, Vol. 6 of the journals of Thomas Merton: "M., my darling, where are you? The"... Citation: Globe and Mail [Toronto] (9 January 1999): D14. B.W. Powe.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's celebrity was a paradox: The more he seemed to withdraw from the world, the more"... Citation: Crisis 26 (July-August 1998): 46-47.

First lines: "Those who have turned Thomas Merton into an icon or plaster saint in overalls would do well to give"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:4 (Winter 1997): 31-34.

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First lines: "Since his death in 1968, the"... Citation: Catholic Library World 86.3 (March 2016): 190.

First lines: "The books and journals of Thomas Merton are wonderful, but his letters, particularly"... Citation: The Catholic Historical Review 102.3 (Summer 2016): 645-646.

First lines: "It is one of the great ironies"... Citation: Catholic Library World 86.1 (September 2015): 59-60.

First lines: "“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about"... Citation: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 84.4 (Autumn 2017): 540-543.

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

First lines: "In this volume of letters between Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn"... Citation: The Merton Journal 22.2 (Advent 2015): 27-29.