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).
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: "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.
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.
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 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).
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: "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: "The Climate of Monastic Prayer is the original title of the book published in"... Citation: The Merton Annual 32 (2019): 242-247.
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: "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.
First lines: "From the notes, opinions, experiences, reflections and meditations of the last decade"... Citation: Catholic Library World 38 (May-June 1967): 611.
First lines: "Merton's latest book is a series of reflections and observations drawn from notebooks kept since 1956"... Citation: The Shield (September 1967) [cited in Bruno Schlesinger letter 17 August 1967]. One copy from Schlesinger correspondence file at.
First lines: "Most of the material in this book was put together by Thomas Merton"... Citation: Liguorian (May 1971): 60.
First lines: "In this second of his posthumous books"... Citation: Library Journal.
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: "Think college course. Think syllabus. Think lecture notes. Think"... Citation: Cithara 59.1 (November 2019): 56-58.
First lines: "Thomas Merton’s writings are well known and many of his lectures and talks, both in his monastery"... Citation: The Downside Review 136.3 (2018): 188-189.
First lines: "A Course in Desert Spirituality is"... Citation: Catholic Library World 90.3 (March 2020): 203.
First lines: "As the title suggests, this book is a selection of prayers and sketches, compiled"... Citation: Spirituality 9.49 (July-August 2003): 251.
First lines: "When Thomas Merton entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani on December 10, 1941, he wholeheartedly"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 38.3 (2003):371-373.
First lines: "A look at the table of contents will give us an idea of the diveristy of the social and religious"... Citation: Catholic World 203(June 1966) :187-188.
First lines: "The first volume of Merton's collected letters showed us how extensive and how diverse"... Citation: Merton Annual 2: 311-314.
First lines: "Exile Ends in Glory, by one of the greatest living poets, Rev. Thomas Merton, OCSO, ($3.75), is the"... Citation: Pilot Boston Mass (10 July 1948).
First lines: "It is fitting that, just as the first Trappistine convent is being oraganized in old New England,"... Citation: Catholic Library World 20 (March 1949) : 199-200.
First lines: "Almost certainly this recent work of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Blackfriars 32 (December 1951): 615.
First lines: "A book-length poem in four books, part of a longer work"... Citation: Hudson Review (Spring 1970): 187.
First lines: "'Christ is the Lord of a history that moves,' as Merton phrases it, might be considered the common"... Citation: Review for Religious 36.2 (March 1977): 320-321. Sr M. Beha.
First lines: "He is Risen, by Thomas Merton is a short (58-page) work by the famous Trappist. No indication"... Citation: Cross and Crown 28 (December 1976): 435.
First lines: "The annual Catholic Literary Award given by the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors has gone this"... Citation: Times Los Angeles CA (12 September 1949).
First lines: "The reserve list on Thomas Merton's latest book, "The Waters of Siloe," is growing by the day. This"... Citation: Tribune LaCrosse WI (12 November 1949).
First lines: "'The Waters of Siloe', by Thomas Merton (Harcourt, Brace publishers) is a study of the Trappist and"... Citation: Call Paterson NJ (25 February 1950).
First lines: "Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain told how he traveled from agnosticism to Gethsemani. It's"... Citation: Michigan Catholic Detroit MI (March 1950).
First lines: "Waters of Siloe and Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, the former a study of the Trappist"... Citation: Press Bristol Conn (17 February 1951).
First lines: "The Waters of Siloe is something of an interior history of the great Order to which Thomas Merton"... Citation: Thought 25 ( March 1950): 178-179.
First lines: "Here at Integrity we joke about putting in place of a review of Thomas Merton's The Waters of Siloe"... Citation: Integrity 4 (October 1949):46-47.
First lines: "It is not to be wondered at that the Trappist writer and poet, Thomas Merton"... Citation: Renascence 18 (Spring 1966): 163-166.
First lines: "A new book by Thomas Merton, author of "Seven Storey Mountain" and "The Waters of Siloe," will be"... Citation: New York Times (9 January 1950).
First lines: "Thomas merton's new biography of a Trappistine, "What are these Wounds" (Bruce) will appear in March"... Citation: Journal Rapid City SD (26 February 1950).
First lines: "This is the biography of St. Lutgarde (1182-1246), a Cistercian mystic of Flanders whose privilege"... Citation: America 83 (8 April 1950): 20.
First lines: "This book is an anthology of passages on nature"... Citation: The Living Church (October 19, 2003): 6.
First lines: "Although popular fancy may people monasteries with wraithlike figures that leap out of bed when"... Citation: Catholic World 193 (August 1961): 330-331.
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.
First lines: "Woods, Shore, Desert: A Notebook contains fragements of the journal kept by"... Citation: Sojourners 13 (January 1984): 37.
First lines: "Thomas Merton will be remembered as one of the great literary figures of the 20th century." Citation: New Mexico Magazine [Santa Fe] 61 (September 1983): 9.
First lines: "The Trappist monk Thomas Merton was a consummate journaler, writing"... Citation: Journal of Religion and Health 45.2 (Summer 2006): 304-305.
First lines: "The writings and ideas of Trappist monk Merton"... Citation: Library Journal 130.1 (2005): 121.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, citing preparatory source material used in the 'Prologus'"... Citation: The Merton Journal 29.1 (Eastertide 2022): 46-50.
First lines: "In their different fashions, both Father Shea and Malcolm Boyd deal in their boooks with"... Citation: U.S. Catholic 42 (Decemeber 1977): 50-51.
First lines: "This book is of particular interest to me with my particular concern for monastic spirituality." Citation: Monos 4.10 (Nov/Dec 1992): 11.
First lines: "Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton"... Citation: The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.
First lines: "No doubt there are even loyal readers of Merton who will raise their eyebrows at notice of yet another"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 62.3 (September 2011): 358-59.
First lines: "In Kentucky's literary galaxy, its poets are among the brightest stars. Many of them have attained"... Citation: Back Home in Kentucky (September-October 1989).
First lines: "Though these two works are as unlike as one could imagine, pairing them raises an"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 328-300.
First lines: "In January 1968, Thomas Merton reflected that My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic"... Citation: Best Sellers 35 (February 1976): 347.
First lines: "The multi-media publicity of the West has already banalized Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of India"... Citation: America (24 February 1968): 266.
First lines: "This book is the best result to date of Fr. Merton's growing fondness for picking from among his"... Citation: America (22 July 1967): 93-94.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's the New Man will also be published Thursday by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Father"... Citation: Pioneer Press St Paul MN (31 December).
First lines: "This is undoubtedly one of the most read books of Thomas Merton apart from his autobiography"... Citation: Monos 17.1 (Jan/Feb 2004): 7.
First lines: "New Seeds of Contemplation orginally appeared in 1961, and it was itself a major reworking of"... Citation: Spiritual Life 54.3 (Fall 2008): 185-86.
First lines: "Let not the prospective reader be discouraged by another title drawn from the writings of John Donne"... Citation: Catholic World (June 1955): 234.
First lines: "The most recent addition to the publication of Merton's conference notes,"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 74.1 (March 2023): 116-118.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, citing preparatory source material used in the 'Prologus'"... Citation: The Merton Journal 29.1 (Eastertide 2022): 46-50.
First lines: "Two books, same size, different colours,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 20.1 (Easter 2013): 49-51.
First lines: "The seventh volume of Merton's journals, The Other Side of the Mountain, is"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 6.1 (Easter 1999): 55-57.
First lines: "Following on his very successful books within the tradition of Merton's spirituality and his biography of Merton"... Citation: Monos 7.4 (Jul/Aug 1995): 7.
First lines: "This book is a collection of essays written by Thomas Merton between 1961 and 1968." Citation: Merton Annual 9: 255-264 [online].
First lines: "Thomas Merton (1915-1918) wrote this convincing critique of modern war in 1961"... Citation: Catholic Worker 72.4 (June-July 2005): 7.
First lines: "An excellent foreword and introduction by Jim Forest and Patricia Burton, who knew"... Citation: Theology Today 62.2 (July 2005): 290.
First lines: "This work consists of six selections from previously published material. Most"... Citation: International Journal for Philosophy and Religion 7.3 (1976): 455.
First lines: "This book comprises a wide variety of material drawn from lectures and conferences given by"... Citation: CR: Quarterly Review of the Community of the Resurrection 427 (Michaelmas 2009): 33-34.
First lines: "Robert Giroux, during his tenure as a trustee for the Merton Legacy"... Citation: The Merton Annual 26 (2013): 216-220.
First lines: "The corpus of literature in this country concerning Thomas Merton continues to grow with Collins'"... Citation: Priests and People 4.10 (November 1990): 426. Paul M. Pearson.
First lines: "The corpus of literature in this country concerning"... Citation: New Seeds 1.5 (1990): 6-7.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was many things to many people--poet, political activist, spiritual"... Citation: Catholic Books Review [online]. [Accessed 21 September 2009].
First lines: "Though John Eudes Bamberger's book, Thomas Merton: Prophet of Renewal (2005), is"... Citation: Citeaux 62.1-4 (2011): 363-368.
First lines: "This first of seven volumes of Merton's journals consists of writings that predate his entrance"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] (1 August 1995):1914-1915.
First lines: "What most recommends this third volume of letters is Patrick Hart's keen editorial decision to break"... Citation: Thought 67.266 (September 1992): 342-344.
First lines: "I may have said before when reviewing the previous volumes as how I seemed to have had so many common"... Citation: Monos 9.4 (Jul/Aug 1997): 8.
First lines: "A Search for Solitude, the third volume of Merton's published journals, covers the years"... Citation: Merton Annual 10: 331-333 [online].
First lines: "This book of fifteen essays, written at various times over the last sixteen years, is a mixed bag: a"... Citation: Catholic World 202 (February 1966): 311-312.
First lines: "Writers do not become so overnight, nor do spiritual men; hence it is a sheer delight to trace, if"... Citation: Cross and Crown 13 (June 1961): 245-246.
First lines: "In our era, it is safe to say, no one has done more than Thomas Merton to unveil for the world the"... Citation: Saturday Review 42 (21 February 1959): 42.
First lines: "Those who expect this book by Thomas Merton"... Citation: The Furrow, 10.11, (Nov. 1959): 743-744.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, the young trappist monk whose The Seven Storey Mountain is a sensational best seller,"... Citation: Courier Express Buffalo NY (22 May 1949).
First lines: "Scarcely a half dozen years have passed since Thomas Merton became Frater Mary Louis, professed"... Citation: Sign 28 (March 1949): 61.
First lines: "One of the unusual things about our admittedly secularistic age in the United States is the strange"... Citation: Catholic Library World 20 (May 1949) : 264.
First lines: "This is Merton's 26th book. His Seeds of Contemplation (1949) are now seeds of world destruction"... Citation: Choice 2 (June 1965): 238.
First lines: "This book, whose title rather ironically recalls his earlier work, Seeds of Contemplation, is an attempt on the part"... Citation: Pax Bulletin [London] 97 (May 1965): 6.