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First lines: "Perhaps a key to Thomas Merton's enduring fame is that he provides a window to a soul's spiritual"... Citation: Merton Annual 23: 288-290.

First lines: "This slim volume brings together for"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 17.2 (Advent 2010): 42-43.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Doubleday, $4.95), consists of"... Citation: Jubilee 14 (March 1967): 42. William F. Claire.

First lines: "Ever since his student days at Columbia in the '30s, Thomas Merton had a deep, abiding interest in"... Citation: Cord 21 (September 1971): 281-283. Vianney M. Devlin OFM.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's ideas on the monastic life changed greatly in the years after 'Elected Silence'"... Citation: Month [London] 5 (July 1972): 219.

First lines: "This book puts together a set of unpublished essays on the monastic life and"... Citation: Irish Theological Quarterly 39.3 (July 1972): 311-312.

First lines: "In certain circles there has been"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 7.2 (1972). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 283. [145-147].

First lines: "Pope Francis recently proclaimed the American Catholic and Cistercian monk Thomas Merton to be an exemplary model of contemplative peace (a controversial statement)." Citation: Reading Religion (August 23, 2018).

First lines: "This book consists of a series of lectures (thirteen to be exact – though"... Citation: The Merton Annual 31 (2018): 201-204.

First lines: "This is a wonderful book. Straight from Merton himself, it brings us a"... Citation: The Merton Journal 25.2 (Advent 2018): 29-31.

First lines: "This has been a difficult review to ponder, then write. During"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 70.2 (June 2019): 224-226.

First lines: "This volume consists of 15 lectures given by Thomas Merton to the novices of Gethsemani Abbey"... Citation: The Downside Review 139.2 (2020): 156-157.

First lines: "A Course in Desert Spirituality represents both Thomas Merton’s legacy"... Citation: The Merton Annual 33 (2020): 255-258.

First lines: "While many have profited from Thomas Merton's writing on contemplative"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 54.4 (2019): 463-464.

First lines: "Near the middle of this fifth of seven volumes (October 31, 1964), Merton writes,"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago, IL] 93.21 (July 1997): 1778-79.

First lines: "This, the fifth of the seven projected volumes of Thomas Merton's complete journals,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 5.1 (Easter 1998): 66-68.

First lines: "There is no doubt that Ernesto Cardenal"... Citation: Hispania, Vol. 84, No. 1 (Mar., 2001): 68-69.

First lines: "Merton was always beginning his spiritual life anew, never afraid to acknowledge the darkness in which"... Citation: Christian Century 118.32 (21-28 November 2001): 47.

First lines: "Columns of nonsense and a certain amount of sense in popular avant garde pages, have been written"... Citation: Catholic Library World 32 (November 1960) : 141-142.

First lines: "The Catholic reader will take up this volume, the autobiography"... Citation: Life of the Spirit 4.40 (October 1949): 183-185.

First lines: "To love onself perfectly, Merton writes in an entry near the end of this volume, is to disappear." Citation: Booklist [Chicago, IL] 92.12 (15 February 1996): 967.

First lines: "'Exile Ends in Glory,' the life of a Trappistine, by Thomas Merton reveals the hidden life of Mother"... Citation: E. Washingtonian Pomeroy, Wash (2 November 1950).

First lines: "This second book by a Roman Catholic writer recently published"... Citation: Canadian Mennonite (September 12, 1969).

First lines: "In addition to the five volumes of Thomas Merton's letters published between"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 69.2 (June 2020): 311-14.

First lines: "When Ernesto Cardenal became a novice at the Abbey of Gethsemani in"... Citation: The Merton Annual 31 (2018): 204-213.

First lines: "The potpourri of books listed above represents one small eddy in the stream of books and monographs"... Citation: Parabola 6.1 (Winter 1981): 109-113.

First lines: "The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology is a treasure"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 52.2 (2017): 236-238.

First lines: "Thomas Merton (1915-1968) left"... Citation: Catholic Library World 89.3 (March 2019): 194.

First lines: "Originally published 50 years ago, Thomas Merton book The Climate of Monastic Prayer is a modern-day excursus on the"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online] [accessed 04 Oct. 2018].

First lines: "Without the spirit of contemplation in all our worship… the"... Citation: Cithara 59.1 (November 2019): 52-55.

First lines: "The Climate of Monastic Prayer was written with monastics in view,"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 54,1 (2019): 128-130.

First lines: "The appearance of this volume more than forty years after Merton wrote the letters requires some"... Citation: Merton Annual 20: 341-343.

First lines: "There is a centuries-ld tradition in"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 14.2 (Advent 2007): 38-39.

First lines: "Many of the thousands who read Thomas Merton's dramatic autobiography of a young man who was"... Citation: News-Sentinel (2 October 1949).

First lines: "A companion volume to Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of"... Citation: Sentinel Waterville, ME (15 February 1950).

First lines: "This third in the trilogy of Merton best sellers is an intriguing commentary on Cistercian"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 1 (June 1950): 280-282.

First lines: "And Thomas Merton, clearly one of our busiest writers, has a new book coming, "What Are These Wounds"... Citation: Chronicle San Francisco (1 March 1950).

First lines: "'What Are These Wounds' by Thomas Merton (Bruce) is based on the medieval biography of St. Lutgarde,"... Citation: Star Indianapolis IN (2 April 1950).

First lines: "In these final days of the Lenten season, you may wish to turn your attention to some of the newer"... Citation: State Journal Lincoln NE (5 April 1950).

First lines: "We expect fine writing from Thomas Merton and in this, his latest contribution, we are not"... Citation: Banner Nashville, TN (31 March 1950). Julia Morris Fitzgerald.

First lines: "Even in our day it is the exception when a saint who is the recipient of extraordinary charismata is"... Citation: Catholic World 171 (May 1950): 234.

First lines: "In writing this short biography of St. Lutgarde, the Cistercian mystic of Aywieres, Thomas Merton"... Citation: Blackfriars 33 (November 1952) 481-482.

First lines: "This book contains 193 letters by Thomas Merton and 153 by Robert Lax,"... Citation: Choice 39.1 (September 2001): 136.

First lines: "Readers of Thomas Merton, especially"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 10.1 (Easter 2003): 27.

First lines: "Love of Christ, a recent and handy addition to the Fleur de Lys Series, consists of thrity short"... Citation: Month [London] 26 (July 1961): 61-62.

First lines: "Here are two notable additions to the increasingly significant body of writings by Thomas Merton." Citation: Commonweal 74 (9 June 1961): 285-286.

First lines: "Trappist monk, novelist, poet and social critic, Merton (1915-1968) oscillates between engagement"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 241.29 (18 July 1994): 228.

First lines: "Next we have the final volume in the five volume collection of Merton's letters." Citation: Monos 7.1 (Jan-Feb 1995): 5.

First lines: "The HarperCollins publishing company is apparently getting its money's worth from its exclusive"... Citation: Merton Annual 18: 352-355.

First lines: "November 24"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 12.2 (Advent 2005): 48-49.

First lines: "Three splendid books. Two are the work of Thomas Merton, who a year ago was electrocuted by a fan"... Citation: Colloquy (December 1969): 40-42.

First lines: "Except for a volume of poetry this is the last work authorized by Merton before his"... Citation: Choice 6 (May 1969): 382.

First lines: "'If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy:"... Citation: The Middle Way (May 1970): 46.

First lines: "To re-read these two books is to be transported to another world, one of high hope and enthusiasm." Citation: Heythrop Journal [London] 19.1 (January 1978): 118-119.

First lines: "Words and deeds, the thought and the act, make an odd counter-point, and one can never tell which"... Citation: Blackfriars 34 (July-August 1953) 363-364.

First lines: "In this autobiographical study, sequel to his best-selling The Seven Storey Mountain, Father Louis"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 4.3 (Autumn 1953): 277-278.

First lines: "A monk himself, Thomas Merton writes of monastic life in "The Silent Life." He describes the two"... Citation: Times Los Gatos, CA (30 January 1957).

First lines: "America, it is said, is discovering the monastic life and its meaning through Thomas Merton. Father"... Citation: Press Telegram Long Beach CA (3 February 1957).

First lines: "'O Happy, most happy the soul that is drawn by grace to God by God, so that, through the unity of"... Citation: Catholic World 185 (February 1957): 396-397.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest book is an excellent"... Citation: (September-October 1957): 16.

First lines: "For a better understanding of the monastic"... Citation: Franciscan Herald and Forum (March 1957).

First lines: "A Catholic monk gives a lucid, graceful description of the"... Citation: Minneapolis (January 13, 1957).

First lines: "This classic work on the Cistercian charism was translated by Thomas"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 54.3 (2019): 356-358.

First lines: "This new edition adds a succinct and useful preface and a timely"... Citation: The Merton Journal 25.2 (Advent 2018): 37-40.

First lines: "In this attractive little book the Liturgical Press has reprinted two articles, on spiritual"... Citation: Cross and Crown 13 (March 1961): 110-112.

First lines: "In the years immediately following the Second Vatican Council, Thomas Merton felt it necessary"... Citation: Merton Annual 6: 215-219 [online].

First lines: "In 1958, the author of the then-unpublished "Cold War Letters" wrote an"... Citation: Harvard Review 12 (Spring 1997): 209-210.

First lines: "At the beginning of his introduction to this volume, the editor, Patrick Hart, quotes"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 95.4 (October 2009): 856-857.

First lines: "This collection of letters exchanged between Merton and the Benedictine Jean Leclercq between 1950"... Citation: St. Anselm's Abbey Newsletter [Washington, Dc] (Winter 2003): 20-21.

First lines: "Readers of The Merton Journal need no"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 9.2 (Advent 2002): 42.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, once a surrealist poet and now Father Louis of the Cistercian Order of Trappists in"... Citation: Chicago Sun (17 April 1950).

First lines: "Contrarily, I find a slackened tension and forced note in the new poems of Thomas Merton, The Tears"... Citation: Journal Providence (21 December 1949).

First lines: "Although Thomas Merton's latest book of poetry "The Tears of the Blind Lions" may be considered "dif"... Citation: Catholic Messenger Davenport (December 1949). Additional copy on item#5.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who should be able to underwrite a new Trappist monastery with the royalties from his"... Citation: New York World-Telegram (11 November 1948).

First lines: "The journal entries of Thomas Merton in Alaska offer yet another kaleidoscopic view"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 305-309.

First lines: "Thomas Merton is not all that well known in England, at least to judge from the story with which"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 310-311.

First lines: "The Thomas Merton Reader depicts"... Citation: Catholic Worker XXX.9 (April 1964): 5.

First lines: "I would like to focus this review of Thomas Merton’s Early Essays,"... Citation: Merton Annual 29: 234-237.

First lines: "This book is part of a series providing"... Citation: Monos 15.6 (Nov-Dec 2002): 11.

First lines: "One of the most enduring aspects of Thomas Merton's character lies in his ability to stir deep empathy in"... Citation: Merton Annual 14 (2001): 251-252.

First lines: "'Thoughts in Solitude,' a book of meditations by Thomas Merton, will be published by Farrar, Straus"... Citation: New York Times (26 April 1958).

First lines: "For Merton fans Thoughts in Solitude is one more title to add to their bookshelf; for his critics"... Citation: Irish Ecclesiastical Record 92 (July 1959): 64-65.

First lines: "Since the beginning of theological ferment of the early 1960s many"... Citation: Theology 79.669 (May 1976): 176-178.

First lines: "'The True Solitude’ by Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, priest and author of many inspiring books: ‘It"... Citation: Progress San Francisco CA (July 1).

First lines: "Like the first three volumes of Merton's journals, this is a treasure, full of insight into the"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 93.5 (1 November 1996): 462.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of Gethsemani, wrote a series of journals before his tragic death in"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville] (11 September 1988): 17.

First lines: "There are four major journals of Thomas Merton which precede A Vow of Conversation." Citation: Merton Annual 2: 320-323.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, author of "The Seven Story Mountain," will have a new books published October 6"... Citation: News Newark NJ (24 July 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and author of two books will have his third brought out in the United"... Citation: Gazette Montreal Canada (23 July 1949).

First lines: "A companion volume to Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," has been scheduled"... Citation: New York Times (5 August 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, whose new book, "The Waters of Siloe," will be issued by Harcourt, Brace Thursday,"... Citation: New York Times (10 September 1949).

First lines: "’It is important to remember the deep…seriousness of Advent, when the mendacious celebrations”… Citation: Publishers Weekly 249.38 (23 September 2002): 41.

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: "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: "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: "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: "Thomas Merton, poet turned Trappist monk"... Citation: Press-Telegram (Long Beach) (August 8, 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).