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First lines: "Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians is the seventh"... Citation: Merton Annual 29: 231-234.

First lines: "Choosing to Love the World is a title well suited to Thomas Merton, who, in his book"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 45.1 (2010): 114-116.

First lines: "When, Suddenly and not without theatrical flourish, the monk-savant Thomas Merton died in 1968, he"... Citation: Grail 6.1 (March 1990): 106-110. John J. Kennedy.

First lines: "December 10th 1988 marked the twentieth anniversary of Thomas Merton's death by electrocution in"... Citation: Priests and People 3.7 (July-August 1989): 294-295. Paul M. Pearson.

First lines: "In many ways, Thomas Merton was a peculiar monk--sworn to the strict Trappist vows of silence,"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 81.17 (May 1985): 1220.

First lines: "Thematic arrangement of photographs by Merton and Griffin, text by Griffin, centering on Merton's"... Citation: Choice 8 (May 1971): 369.

First lines: "The most predictable thing about Thomas Merton's life was that its end"... Citation: Critic 29 (March-April 1971): 81-82.

First lines: "Honorable reader : reflections on my works in not Merton's "Retractiones" (St. Augustine's look-back"... Citation: Spirituality Today 44.2 (Summer 1992): 199-200. Richard K. Weber OP.

First lines: "This selection of Thomas Merton's spiritual writings is arranged under eight headings:"... Citation: Theology Digest 52.4 (Winter 2005): 380.

First lines: "Basil Pennington's anthology"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 12.2 (Advent 2005): 47-48.

First lines: "Kathleen Norris rightly observes in her preface that the poetry of Thomas Merton is the"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 57.3 (September 2006): 348-350.

First lines: "In the Valley of Wormwood is a menology of Cistercian saints and blesseds"... Citation: The Merton Annual 27 (2014): 211-215.

First lines: "A Trappist monk and prolific author, Merton (1915-68) was a pivotal figure in bringing Eastern mysticism to a wider"... Citation: Library Journal 128.12 (July 2003): 87-88.

First lines: "Although many of Thomas Merton's"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 10.2 (Advent 2003): 26-27.

First lines: "Take off your shoes and read, for you enter a holy place when you open this book." Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 36.1 (2001): 133-135.

First lines: "Few religious figures of the past century embodied more irony and paradox"... Citation: Sewanee Theological Review 44.3 (2001): 349-352.

First lines: "Merton's real autobiography, it has been suggested, is in his personal journals." Citation: Merton Annual 13: 257-263.

First lines: "The Intimate Merton, as its subtitle suggests, tells the life of Thomas Merton using"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 6.2 (Advent 1999): 50-52.

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: "One is likely to be disappointed if, misled somewhat by its title -"... Citation: Citeaux 61.2-4 (2010): 386-389.

First lines: "One of the entries in this newest offering from the writings of Thomas Merton is a selection"... Citation: Merton Annual 1: 341-343.

First lines: "Each year, on Ash Wednesday, millions of Christians, begin the Lenten journey, hearing Jesus'"... Citation: Merton Annual 21: 282-285.

First lines: "This volume of letters edited and annotated by Patrick Samway, a"... Citation: Modern Believing 57.2 (2016): 199-201.

First lines: "This is not a biography, but the"... Citation: Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 39.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2016): 63-64.

First lines: "Two books published in 2015 revolved around the relationship of"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 51.2 2016): 265-268.

First lines: "This book chronicles of the exchange of correspondence"... Citation: Kentucky Libraries 79.2 (2015): 17-18.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk who spent much of his"... Citation: Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 113.4 (Autumn 2015): 788-789.

First lines: "Thomas Merton’s dedicated readers have roadmaps through his life and"... Citation: Merton Annual 28: 239-240.

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: "This volume completes the publication of Thomas Merton’s novitiate conferences"... Citation: The Merton Annual 36 (2023): 257-260.

First lines: "This is the third volume of Thomas Merton's Novitiate Conferences, which he gave to the novices"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 58.4 (2023): 477-481.

First lines: "A happy memory from the time immediately before I became a novice of"... Citation: The Merton Journal 30.2 (Advent 2023): 39-42.

First lines: "Solidly doctrinal is The Living Bread by Thomas Merton (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $3). Dealing, as"... Citation: Our Sunday Visitor (11 March 1956). Duplicate copy crossed out on item #5. copy of 6a.

First lines: "This most recent work of the convert-Cistercian"... Citation: Books Abroad 31.1 (Winter 1957): 38.

First lines: "A new book by Thomas Merton, so many years after his death"... Citation: (Spring/Summer 1979): 26.

First lines: "The ever growing public of Thomas Merton, young Trappist convert-poet, should be happy about Man in"... Citation: Catholic Messenger (24 October 1948).

First lines: "In 1955, Dom James Fox, abbot of the Abbey of Gethsemani, appointed"... Citation: The Merton Annual 33 (2020): 253-254.

First lines: "Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented to young"... Citation: Studies in Spirituality 31 (2021): 295-296.

First lines: "In 1951, shortly before he was appointed master of students in charge"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 72.4 (December 2021): 477-479.

First lines: "I am writing these words shortly after wrapping up an intensive summer reading course in German"... Citation: The Merton Annual 34 (2021): 232-235.

First lines: "Patrick O’Connell and New City Press have come up with a real winner in"... Citation: The Merton Annual 32 (2019): 239-242.

First lines: "For readers of Cistercian Studies Quarterly no introduction is necessary"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 55.2 (2020): 228-231.

First lines: "Representative selections from one of the major works of the great Alexandrian"... Citation: Monastic Studies 5 (Easter 1968): 151-152.

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.