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First lines: "It may be a reassurance to those of us who go on reading books on prayer, that the flow of"... Citation: Blackfriars 51.604 (September 1970): 445-446.

First lines: "The appearance of this volume more than forty years after Merton wrote the letters requires some"... Citation: Cross Currents 59.1 (March 2009): 92-93.

First lines: "Robert Lowell said it in 1945 of Thomas Merton's first book of poetry: "Unfortunately, Merton's work"... Citation: Notre Dame English Journal 11 (October 1978): 71-74. Elena Malits CSC.

First lines: "There are really two Mertons: one the Sufi, the mystic, the desert saint"... Citation: Choice (July-August 1978).

First lines: "The number of Thomas Merton's prose works and the general interest in his social commentary"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 3:1 (Spring 1978): 5 [online]. [Accessed March 20, 2017].

First lines: "Letters usually are inroads to intimacy with a person and these do not disappoint"... Citation: Benedictines 63.1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 51-53.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, though dead, lives on, not only in the works published during his lifetime, but"... Citation: Heythrop Journal [London] 14.1 (January 1973): 93-94.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's twentieth and second-last book will probably rank as one of his finest." Citation: The Furrow 23.9 (September 1972): 563-64.

First lines: "There is something particularly shattering about sudden death. Perhaps"... Citation: The Furrow 25.3 (March 1974): 176-79.

First lines: "This is new Merton material! For the latest (fourth) collection of Merton letters, Bochen has"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago, IL] 89.22 (August 1993): 2030-31.

First lines: "Pope Francis recently proclaimed the American Catholic and Cistercian monk Thomas Merton to be an"... Citation: Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion. August 23, 2018.

First lines: "Jon Sweeney renders readers fifteen of Thomas Merton's lectures to young"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online] [accessed 31 Jan. 2020].

First lines: "For Thomas Merton, the years 1963 through 1965 are marked by 'ambiguity'." Citation: Merton Annual 11: 196-199.

First lines: "Here are sixty-three pages of text and photographs, "written"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 32.1 (Fall 1982): 70-71.

First lines: "Dentro del contexto de la poesia norteamericana e hispanoamericana del"... Citation: Hispanófila, No. 137 (ENERO 2003): 151-152.

First lines: "Like his beautifully crafted letters and journals, Merton's prayers and drawings reveal his multifaceted"... Citation: Publisher's Weekly 248.40 (1 October 2001): 57.

First lines: "Dialogues with Silence brings together for the first time two central elements"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 8.2 (Advent 2001): 54-56.

First lines: "A new book by Thomas Merton, "Disputed Questions," will be published by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy on"... Citation: NY Times (14 September 1960).

First lines: "Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton"... Citation: The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.

First lines: "An American autobiography describing a personal religious conversion is having the success"... Citation: New Statesman and Nation (13 August 1949): 174, 176.

First lines: "In America this book, under another title (The Seven Storey Mountain)"... Citation: Unpublished Typescript.

First lines: "Jonathon Montaldo's editing of volume two of Merton's journals reflects the monastic virtue of"... Citation: Merton Annual 10: 326-330 [online].

First lines: "If outstanding theologians find it difficult to explain the morality of man's sexuality in the light"... Citation: Thomist 33.1 (January 1969): 197-200.

First lines: "For the fourth time in as many years, Thomas Merton has come out with a collection of his"... Citation: Sign 48 (December 1968): 52.

First lines: "Where Sullivan is objective and somewhat primitive, Trappist convert-poet Thomas Merton, in his"... Citation: Pilot Boston Mass (17 April 1948).

First lines: "The library also has acquired a copy of Thomas Merton's latest book of poetry, "Figures for an"... Citation: Tribune LaCrosse Wisconsin (13 April 1949).

First lines: "The intemperance which characterizes so much of what is written and said about Thomas Merton is"... Citation: Critic 40.2 (February 1981): 2-4. Michael Garvey.

First lines: "'Guigo is one of those extraordinary figures in literature and in spirituality"... Citation: Monastic Studies 4 (Advent 1966): 191-193.

First lines: "At present, Merton bulks too large; 'Collectanea Cisterciensia', for example, shows that even St." Citation: Heythrop Journal [London] 20 (October 1979): 466-467.

First lines: "A collection of "in-house" articles never intended for a mass-audience"... Citation: The Critic (Winter 1977): 89.

First lines: "In 1965 Thomas Merton realized "a dream deferred"--becoming a hermit, living in a small concrete"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 295-298.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's early novel, written in his 20's, before he became a Trappist monk"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 195 (28 April 1969): 67-68.

First lines: "The late Merton's work, written before"... Citation: Houston Chronicle (July 11, 1969).

First lines: "In the summer of 1941, Thomas Merton, an unknown, 26-year-old"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 77 (November 1969): 58-59.

First lines: "In the preface of his latest book, Merton explains that he wrote his first Seeds of Contemplation 12"... Citation: Ave Maria (3 March 1962): 27-28.

First lines: "Thomas Merton wrote Life and Holiness, a simple sketch (perhaps too sketchy) of the Christian life"... Citation: Month [London] 31 (January 1964): 57-58.

First lines: "New Seeds of Contemplation is a revision and amplification of the author's well-known"... Citation: The Furrow , 14.7 (Jul. 1963): 473.

First lines: "The present volume contains a collection of conferences on the book of Genesis that"... Citation: Studies in Spirituality 31 (2021): 296.

First lines: "Passion for Peace: Reflections on War and Nonviolence is an important book." Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48.1 (2013): 137-140.

First lines: "While the parking lots of megachurches brim with cars and President Bush"... Citation: Liguorian 93.6 (July-August 2005): 38.

First lines: "This book, intended for publication in 1962, now appears for the first time in its full form." Citation: Theology Digest 52.1 (Spring 2005): 69.

First lines: "These three Merton volumes are among the initial offerings of the new Monastic"... Citation: Cross Currents 58.4 (1 December 2008): 616-620.

First lines: "Is it heresy--or at least risking being an ingrate--to be somewhat disappointed in a book"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 59.1 (March 2008): 102-104.

First lines: "Pre- Benedictine Monasticism represents a renewed attempt on the part of Thomas Merton to"... Citation: Merton Annual 20: 346-353.

First lines: "Both of these books are significant"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 15.1 (Easter 2008): 50-53.

First lines: "There are good precedents"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 19.1 (Easter 2012): 43-45.

First lines: "This is a hermit's appraisal of the modern world,"... Citation: The Furrow 18.5 Supplement Books 2 (Summer 1967): 18-19.

First lines: "Three years before his death Merton wrote: "I could fill another page with names of people I have"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 300-304.

First lines: "Those of us who thought that we were familiar with Merton's corpus of writings may be surprised"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 61.3 (September 2010): 334-335.

First lines: "Is Thomas Merton the most prolific posthumous author in modern times--if not all times? It would"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 104.1 (June 1996): 50-51. Mitch Finley.

First lines: "Of the works by the prolific monk"... Citation: (October 10, 1995): 10.

First lines: "Sealed for 25 years after his death"... Citation: QPB Review (April 1996): 9.

First lines: "First, I want to thank the three reviewers of Run to the Mountain for their careful reading and"... Citation: Merton Annual 9: 314-315 [online].

First lines: "The third volume in a projected five-volume series of letters by the late (d. 1968)"... Citation: Kirkus Reviews (15 September 1990): 1306.

First lines: "In his preface Thomas Merton tells us that the present volume"... Citation: Catholic Telegraph - Register (September 11, 1959).

First lines: "Seeds, in contrast to When the Trees"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 10.1 (Easter 2003): 27-28.

First lines: "Again the Trappist silences are beating on our doors--this time in the form of an austere, burlap"... Citation: Renascence 1 (Spring 1949): 68-70.

First lines: "There is scarcely a Catholic review, German, French, English,"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 4.46 (April 1950): 472-473.

First lines: "The varying attitudes Catholics take to race and moral problems are held up to view. The author"... Citation: Catholic Library World 36 (March 19465: 469.

First lines: "It is no surpise that the Cistercian monk, Thomas Merton, discovered the"... Citation: Horizons 31.2 (Fall 2004): 465-466.

First lines: "A monk admires furniture. A mystic snaps photographs. A workman responds to the call of God by"... Citation: Journey. Uniting Church in Australia - Queensland Synod [online]. [Accessed August 20 2014].

First lines: "This collection of Thomas Merton's essays, talks, and letters"... Citation: American Catholic Studies Newsletter 31.2 (Fall 2004): 19.

First lines: "The 2001 death of Sister Marie leaves the Shakers, or rather 'The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second appearing,'"... Citation: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13.1 (Winter 2006): 236-237.

First lines: "For fans of Thomas Merton who have concentrated on his major works, this volume"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online]. [Accessed February 4, 2014].

First lines: "As we near the centenary of the birth of Thomas Merton in 2015, Patrick"... Citation: Horizons 41.1 (June 2014): 190-192.

First lines: "About two years ago, I tried again to read Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey"... Citation: Theological Studies 75 (2014): 439-441.

First lines: "The first question readers new to the work of Thomas Merton often ask"... Citation: Cithara 54.2 (May 2015): 55-56.

First lines: "One of the great delights of reading"... Citation: The Merton Journal 21.1 (Easter 2014): 50-52.

First lines: "This is a portentous book because the author with his candid camera has not only made in his"... Citation: America (13 November 1948).

First lines: "Another autobiographical study set in the period between two wars is the distinctive "the Seven"... Citation: Patriot Ledger (3 November 1948).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain" is the autobiography of a young man who led a full and"... Citation: Dispatch Herald (2 January 1949).

First lines: "'The Seven Storey Mountain' is the autobiography of Thomas Merton who entered a Trappist monastery"... Citation: Union Bulletin Walla Walla Wash (26 June 1949).

First lines: "We still think that if one wants to learn something of Catholicism he will find a much more"... Citation: Press Glendora CA (4 November 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's best-selling autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," which was recently"... Citation: Journal Atlanta, GA (8 January 1950).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's two books, "Seven Storey Mountain" and "The Waters of Siloe" are also excellent"... Citation: Californian Bakersfield, CA (18 March 1950).

First lines: "The Sign of Jonas, the journal of Thomas Merton, author of "Storey Mountain" will be published by"... Citation: News Charleston SC (14 September 1952).

First lines: "And now for the early autumn days comes the companion volume to Thomas Merton's famous "The Seven"... Citation: Gazette Taunton MA (17 September 1949).

First lines: "The author says in his prologue that the"... Citation: Ave Maria 71 (January 7, 1950): 26.

First lines: "Not a translator or scholar, but a poet, Merton has re-rendered the sayings of"... Citation: Choice 3 (April 1966): 127.

First lines: "A delightful interpretative reading of an"... Citation: Monumenta Nipponica 22.1-2 (1967): 243.

First lines: "The celebrated dictum about every person having one good book in him is well illustrated in the case"... Citation: Tribune Chicago IL (26 March 1950).

First lines: "St. Lutgarde was a Cistercian nun attached to the c onvent of Aywieres in the Duchy of Brabant." Citation: Sign 29 (May 1950): 66-67.

First lines: "Arthur Biddle's exemplary edition of the letters exchanged between Thomas Merton and his Columbia"... Citation: Commonweal 128.14 (17 August 2001): 29.

First lines: "Those who have read--or attempted to read--A Catch of Anti-Letters, the collection of 66 letters"... Citation: Merton Annual 14: 244-251.

First lines: "This collection of proverbs and stories from the desert fathers show how justified Saint Benedict"... Citation: Sign 41 (November 1961): 72.

First lines: "Some sayings of fourth-century desert Fathers"... Citation: Jubilee 9.6 (October 1961): 46.

First lines: "In 1965 as Thomas Merton was preparing to enter his hermitage on a more permanent basis, he"... Citation: Merton Annual 8: 246-254 [online].

First lines: "Honeymooning in Mendocino, a little artists' village in Northern California, I had been"... Citation: Epiphany 5 (Winter 1984); 89-91.

First lines: "Before The Seven Storey Mountain was publsihed Thomas Merton had begun to keep a journal." Citation: Catholic Library World 24 (March 1953): 203.

First lines: "In these two works Father Merton treats of the monastic life under rather different aspects." Citation: Irish Ecclesiastical Record 90 (September 1958): 210-211.

First lines: "A popular book on the monastic orders has long been needed, and"... Citation: Life of the Spirit (December 1957): 287.

First lines: "Within a sepia dust jacket photograph"... Citation: Catholic News (January 12, 1957).

First lines: "Many questions about the contemplative life are being asked today with"... Citation: Catholic Review Service VIII.7 (February 11, 1957): 39.

First lines: "The correspondence between these remarkable monks began in 1950 with Leclercq asking for Merton's help"... Citation: Spiritus 2.2 (Fall 2002): 260-262.

First lines: "The title of this book is derived from Thomas Merton's last letter to Jean Leclercq"... Citation: Regional Mailbag 267 (April-June 2002): 9-10.

First lines: "In the past few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the life and works of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Spiritual Life 55.4 (Wiinter 2009): 245-248.

First lines: "This volume, the latest in the series of Merton letters published by Farrar"... Citation: Merton Annual 16: 245-246.

First lines: "First issued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2002, this collection of letters"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 46.2 (2011): 238-239.

First lines: "Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska in 1968, just before his fateful Asian trip. This volume"... Citation: Theology Digest 36.3 (Fall 1989): 279.

First lines: "In 2015, Pope Francis spoke to a joint session of Congress and praised the work of four Americans." Citation: Catholic Books Review (2024).