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First lines: "Prawdopodobnie wiecie juz o tym, ze otrzymalem zezwolenie na opuszczenie mojego klasztoru.." Contents: «Znak» (Krakow) 1..
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Both copies of the preface are in English, but one was intended for translation and inclusion in the French edition and one was to remain in English for an American edition. The prefaces differ greatly. The American edition was published in Volume 28, No. 4 of «The Merton Seasonal».
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.
Reviews of The Silent Life.
First lines: "Anyone in America who has ever tried to gather information concerting the customs and practices of"... Citation: Ave Maria 85 (26 January 1957): 587. R.L. Langlois.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's short narrative on St. Benedictine Monasteries will be remembered by Christians and"... Citation: Times Herald Dallas, TX (20 January 1957). Fred Hosea.
First lines: "In the first book of its kind to appear in English, this is the full story of monastic life--of the"... Citation: Avertiser Montgomery, AL (17 February 1957). M.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, who should be eminently qualified on the subject, being a Trappist monk, has written"... Citation: Star Ft Worth, TX (25 February 1957). Pat Record.
First lines: "Even to many spiritual persons the lives of monks seem wasted, and so Thomas Merton's beautiful"... Citation: Booklist Chicago, IL (8 December 1956). Rev. W. Charles Heiser.
First lines: "Beautifully printed, and with lovely photographs, this is Father Merton's account, for laymen, of"... Citation: Episcopal Church News (3 March 1957).
First lines: "'The Silent Life' is by one who abandoned the fleshpots of Greenwich Village and the intellectual"... Citation: Courier Journal (6 January 1957). William Habich. See 03c.
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: "Any new book by Thomas Merton"... Citation: Cleveland Plain Dealer (May 12, 1959).
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First lines: "In 1945, Dom Frederic Dunne, Abbot of Gethsemani, aware of his young monk’s linguistic"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 43.2 (Summer 2018): 29-32.
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First lines: "In 1967 and 1968, the Trappist monk Thomas Merton met in retreat with a group of women"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 88.18 (15 May 1992): 1644. Pat Monaghan.
First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book of poems is dull, daunted and reminiscent of Eliot. These three qualities"... Citation: Commonweal 66 (5 July 1957): 357-358. John Logan.
First lines: "The third book of poems by Howard Moss is an extremely accomplished collection. The poems differ in"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (26 May 1957): 28. W.S. Merwin.
First lines: "Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and"... Citation: Saturday Review 40 (6 July 1957): 29. Donald Hall.
First lines: "Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and"... Citation: Spirit 24 (July 1957): 85-87. Thomas P. McDonnell.
First lines: "Two men acquainted with solitude, one a Trappist monk, the other a political exile, engaged for a"... Citation: Journal of Religion and Health 36.2 (June 1997): 177-179. Kathleen C. Ford.
First lines: "This is one of those books that touches your soul and stays with you. It records the exchanges of"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 243.49 (2 December 1996): 51. Henry Carrigan.
First lines: "'We have to get used to our total moral isolation. It is going to get worse. We have to regain our"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:1 (Spring 1997): 31-32.
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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.
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First lines: "A new, small sheaf of devotional poems by the author of the widely popular "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Times Los Angeles (8 January 1950).
First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest volume of poetry is concerned, not surprisingly, with the themes that have"... Citation: New York Times 54 (27 November 1949). Milton Crane. Copy on item#4a.
First lines: "This small and beautifully printed collection of devotional poems by Thomas Merton, the young"... Citation: Post-Dispatch St Louis Mo (1 February 1950). Joseph J. Firebaugh.
First lines: "Readers who have followed the literary career of Thomas Merton, meteoric since "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Tennessean Nashville. C.V.
First lines: "The continued appearance of poems by Thomas Merton in SPIRIT, Poetry, Partisan Review, Horizon and"... Citation: Spirit 16 (January 1950): 195-197. Gervase Toelle O'Carn.
First lines: "When Thomas Merton's poetry first was printed, it was received in Catholic circles with perhaps"... Citation: Thought 25 (September 1950): 524. Joseph P. Clancy.
First lines: "My Obviously biased impression is that the specifically war poetry of World War II was better than"... Citation: Kenyon Review 12.4 (Autumn 1950): 705-708, 710-712.
First lines: "Here is Poetry with roots struck deep in meditation, nourished by the slow, rich dripping of silence"... Citation: America 73 (21 April 1945). William A. Donaghy.
First lines: "In there columns where America has lately aroused interest in the status of Catholic art, drawing"... Citation: America 73 (21 July 1945): 316-318. Sister Julie.
First lines: "Anyone with previous experience of Thomas Merton's work in SPIRIT, The New Yorker or View, will"... Citation: Spirit 12 (March 1945): 24-26.Paul Morten.
First lines: "In the Mystery of the Incarnation, which is at the same time an official ecclesiastical mystery, Mr." Citation: Sewanee Review 53 (1945): 457. Denis Devlin.
First lines: "The writings of Thomas Merton, who died in December 1968, continue to be published with unfailing"... Citation: America 177.18 (6 December 1997): 24-26. John Eudes Banberger.
First lines: "According to Cooper (Michigan State Univ.), this collection of 176 letters from religious writer and"... Citation: Choice 35.4 (December 1997). J. Overmyer.
First lines: "David Cooper, well known to us for his original if controversial Thomas Merton's Art of Denial,"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:3 (Fall 1997): 23-26.
First lines: "Can any original Merton writing remain unpublished? Almost none. The publication of his journal"... Citation: En Christo 3.3 (July 1990): 48. Bernard K. Bangley.
First lines: "like the relics of the saint he probably was, Merton's writings have by no, 21 years after his death"... Citation: Kirkus Reviews (1 February 1989).
First lines: "Robert Daggy, curator of the Thomas Merton Studies Center, makes some excellent observations in his"... Citation: Living Prayer 22.5 (September-October 1989): 32-33. Joan Williams OCD.
First lines: "Thomas Merton, the famed Cistercian monk of the Gethsemani, Kentucky monastery, spent two weeks in"... Citation: Sunday Independent [Ashland KY] (14 May 1989): 42. Thelma Scott Kiser.
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: "Thomas Merton spent two weeks in Alaska prior to his Asian sojourn. He was there at the invitiation"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 14:3 (Summer 1989): 18-20.
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).
First lines: "This book consists primarily of transcribed talks"... Citation: Catholic Library World 95.1 (August 2024): 35.
First lines: "Thomas Merton may not need an introduction, but the editor of this book, David Odorisio, offers a good twenty"... Citation: Spirituality & Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys.
First lines: "This volume brings together materials from Merton’s two visits to Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey”… Citation: Theological Studies 85.3 (September 2024): 550-551.
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Reviews of Thomas Merton on Peace.
First lines: "For Thomas Merton the word "peace" was more than a utopian concept or a pious platitude. It was a"... Citation: Orion 17 (September-October 1972): 85-88. Richard [Columban] Weber OCSO. Also see 03, 05.
First lines: "During the San Francisco-to-Moscow Peace Walk in 1961, Thomas Merton asked one of the"... Citation: Catholic Free Press (December 3, 1971).
First lines: "At first sight the two books under review might seem to be of a similar nature: they both belong to"... Citation: New Seeds 1.1 (1989): 4. Stephen J. Hotchen.
First lines: "Students of both Bernard and Merton should find these three essays on Bernard's mystical teaching"... Citation: Religious Studies Review 7 (October 1981): 355-356. David E. Timmer.
First lines: "The intemperance which characterizes so much of what is written and said about Thomas Merton"... Citation: Critic 40.2: 2-4.
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Reviews of A Thomas Merton Reader.
First lines: "A Thomas Merton Reader is a revision of a 1962 book, and a splendid anthology of the many-faceted"... Citation: Saint Luke's Journal of Theology 19.1: 82-84.
Reviews of The Thomas Merton Study Center.
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First lines: "The centennial year of Thomas Merton's birth has been observed"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 67.2 (June 2016): 217-219.
First lines: "Despite the fact that Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton died on Dec. 10, 1968, most of his"... Citation: Our Sunday Visitor 81.32 (6 December 1992): 14-15.
First lines: "Interest in the life and writings of Thomas Merton continues to"... Citation: Perspectives in Religious Studies 23.1 (Spring 1996): 99-101.
First lines: "Merton books continue to be published with amazing frequency. This is a most valuable one." Citation: Merton Seasonal 17:4 (Fall 1992): 22-24.
First lines: "Zostawil ponad dziesiec tysiecy listow." Citation: Tygodnik Powszeclmy/Ksiazki w Tygodniku 49 (4 December 2011): 10.
First lines: "'Niech mi bedzie wolno na wstepie uporac sie z pewna"... Citation: Topos 125.4 (2012): 134-141.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was one of the most prolific letter writers of the twentieth"... Citation: Theology 113.874 (2010): 314-315.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was a consummate letter writer. He was also prolific in his epistolary output--most"... Citation: Merton Annual 23: 294-297.
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Reviews of Thomas Merton: Essential Writings.
First lines: "In her preface to this fine anthology, the editor, Christine Bochen, acknowledges that three other anthologies"... Citation: Anglican Theological Review 83.3 (Summer 2001)): 659-60.
First lines: "Thomas Merton: Essential Writings is the fourth"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 8.1 (Easter 2001): 37.
Reviews of Thomas Merton: Preview of the Asian journey.
First lines: "Thomas Merton was no stranger to the Fellows of the Center for the Study of Democratic"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 15.1 (Winter 1990): 26-28.
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First lines: "Written in 1953 and 1954 these reflections by a Trappist monk deal with various aspects of the"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 54 (1 June 1958): 548-549.
First lines: "'Thoughts in Solitude' is a book of meditations by Trappist monk Thomas Merton. It is related to his"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (25 May 1958). William Habich.
First lines: "'Great though books may be, friends though they may be to us, they are no substitute for persons,"... Citation: Post Houston, TX (25 May 1958). J.M.
First lines: "In an age when we are more concerned with "chemical fall-out" than that infinitely greater danger"... Citation: Catholic World 187 (July 1958): 319-320.
First lines: "This paperbound reprint by America's most talked of Trappist writer is, according to the cover blurb"... Citation: Cross and Crown 13 (December 1961): 475.
First lines: "Writings on the solitary life, on vocations and on Christian spirituality, culled from notes made"... Citation: Jubilee 6 (July 1958): 38.
First lines: "Thomas Merton describes his book in the Preface as being intuitions"... Citation: The Furrow, 13.4 (Apr. 1962): 242-243.