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First lines: "Brother Patrick Hart's edition of Merton's literary essays was a welcome addition to Mertoniana"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 10:4 (Fall 1985): 18-20.

First lines: "The author of this autobiography is a young poet who, at the age of 26, entered the Trappist"... Citation: New Republic (4 October 1948). John Farrelly.

First lines: "The legacy of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk,"... Citation: Chronicles of Culture (March 1983): 15-18.

First lines: "If an American knows the name of only one living monk, the chances are good that the name will be"... Citation: Book Week 2 (17 January 1965):4. Martin E. Marty.

First lines: "Last week's column was, not inappropriately, devoted in past to a backward look, with a measure of"...

First lines: "Today is a perfect day to commune with Thomas Merton, because the sun is shining and the birds are"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 30:1 (Spring 2005): 23-24.

First lines: "Here, at least, is something of an answer to the sometimes not-too-carefully-made charge that SPIRIT"... Citation: Spirit 27 (May 1960): 59-62. Allan Rayne.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk whose "Seven Storey Mountain" continues as a best-seller, offers a"... Citation: Bulletin Philadelphia PA (10 April 1949). Frank Hanlon.

First lines: "This third volume of the projected five-volume series of the letters of Thomas Merton embraces the"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville] (10 November 1990): A15. L. Elisabeth Beattie.

First lines: "Last summer a Trappist monk told me that he never reads Thomas Merton any more; he feels that Merton"... Citation: Ave Maria 93 (20 May 1961): 27. Rev. Willard F. Jabusch.

First lines: "This book contains material, revised and expanded, that previously was published in the magazine,"... Citation: Review for Religious 21.3 (May 1965): 279-280. Richard J. Middendorf SF.

First lines: "'The Sign of Jonas,' a new book by Thomas Merton, will be published by Harcourt, Brace in September"... Citation: New York Herald Times (22 May 1952).

First lines: "'I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman, plucking wild figs." Citation: Journal Providence RI (10 April 1955). William P. Kelley.

First lines: "One theme runs through Thomas"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 3870 (May 14 1976): 591.

First lines: "Intimate glimpses into the soul of a man who can hardly wait to lose himself in God are given in"... Citation: Ensign Ottawa Canada (21 March 1953). Leo MacGillivray.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's "The New Man" is a book of meditations. The question of spiritual identity is the"... Citation: News Benton Harbor MI (14 February 1962).

First lines: "Here, at least, is something of an answer to the sometimes not-too-carefully-made charge that SPIRIT"... Citation: Spirit 27 (May 1960): 59-62.

First lines: "Gerard Manley Hopkins replies to the question "What is Spring?" by saying that it is "Growth in"... Citation: America 170.10 (19 March 1994): 27-31. Patrick H. Samway SJ.

First lines: "There is an old saw that says "every analogy limps" (omnis analogia claudicat). Be that as it may,"... Citation: Commonweal 121.4 (25 February 1994): 26-27. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "Father Merton has seized the occasion"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2775 (May 6 1955): 244.

First lines: "The encyclical letter of Pope Pius XII, on the occasion of the eighth centenary of the death of"... Citation: News Dayton Ohio (6 June 1954). B.J. Losh.

First lines: "Assembling in the dining room at the home of Mrs. Ernest J. Woelfel of Summit avenue, Peabody, just"... Citation: Telegram-News Lynn, Mass (8 May 1949).

First lines: "The author is one of the most distinguished Roman Catholic writers of our day. His list of books in"... Citation: Times Roanoke, VA. (3 April 1966). J.J. Murray Sr.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was born in France of English and American parents, came to the United States"... Citation: Dayton Daily News Dayton OH (22 January 1967). Tom Carroll.

First lines: "This is the latest volume by Kentucky's Trappist monk, Thomas Merton. It is nonfiction, and the"... Citation: Courier Journal Louisville, KY (23 October 1960). William Habich.

First lines: "Thomas Merton first reached the public eye with an"... Citation: Sunday Record (July 22, 1973).

First lines: "One's appreciation of this book is only modified by Father Merton's candid admission that it has"... Citation: Tablet [London] 213 (25 April 1959): 394-395.

First lines: "In 1941, when he was 26 Years old, Thomas Merton, son of a well known artist, and himself a gifted"... Citation: Herald Boston, Mass (24 October 1948). Claude M. Fuess.

First lines: "The Waters of Siloe flow in silence and the taste of them is sweet and nourishing to mankind. Thomas"... Citation: Press Pittsburgh PA (25 September 1949). J.D.P.

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: "What are friends for? The question is usually posed as thought the answer were self-evident: friends"... Citation: Wilson Quarterly 22.3 (Summer 1998): 107-108. Martha Bayles.

First lines: "Although it may be true that some readers will reach for this volume because of their interest in"... Citation: World Literature Today 71.4 (Autumn 1997): 883. Jerzy J. Maciuszko.

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: "In "The Seven Storey Mountain" Thomas Merton spoke briefly with admiration and gratitude of the"... Citation: Saturday Review of Literature 35 (1 March 1952): 44-45. Serge Hughes.

First lines: "If prayer in print becomes too ostentatious, there is enough of the old Adam in me to make me feel"... Citation: Evening News Buffalo NY (5 June 1954).

First lines: "Three years before his death Merton wrote: " I could fill another page with names of"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Autumn 1989): 12-15.

First lines: "In Cables to the Ace which the author subtitles "Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding," we observe"... Citation: Spirit 35 (July 1968): 93. Aloysius M. Sullivan.

First lines: "A new book by Thomas Merton is not much of a novelty these days, for the author of "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Chicago Sunday Tribune (8 February 1953): John A. O'Brien.

First lines: "There are lots and lots of "spiritual" books coming out these days, because there is, thanks be to"... Citation: America 161.15 (18 November 1989): 358-359. M. Basil Pennington OCSO.

First lines: "True gift-giving is always a transaction between two spirits, but the giving of a book introduces a"... Citation: America 159.14 (12 November 1988): 387. Sandra M. Schneiders IHM.

First lines: "When asked by the editors of the Catholic World for some recommendations for the summer reader, a"... Citation: Catholic World 238.1425 (May 1995): 136-137. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "From October 1939 to November 1941, when Merton was in his mid-twenties, he was a convert to"... Citation: N.H. Sunday News Manchester, NH (15 March 1959). W.G. Rogers. Also see 05b, 05c, 05d, 06a.

First lines: "The persistent interest in Thomas Merton, poet, essayist and aesthete, who became a convert to"... Citation: Foundation News (May-June 1991): 61. Abigail McCarthy.

First lines: "The "doctor whose teaching is as sweet as honey" and who was the last Father of the Church, has been"... Citation: Enquirer Cincinnati Ohio (13 June 1954). Sean Callery.

First lines: "For those who are anxious to get straight to"... Citation: Expository Times 117.3 (Dec 2005): 130-131.

First lines: "A few months ago I was a quest "expert" on a radio-talk show in Washington, D.C. The topic was"... Citation: Commonweal 119.19 (6 November 1992): 42. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "Najslynniejszy chyba pustelnik XX wieku Thomas Merton pod"... Citation: Znak 60.1 (Jaunuary 2008): 165-168.

First lines: "Fifty years ago this Sunday, a book appeared that told of a young man who had embraced and rejected"... Citation: Wall Street Journal (2 October 1998): W14. Elizabeth Powers.

First lines: "Older men have been attracted to younger woman before, patients to their nurses. Poems have"... Citation: Commonweal 113.19 (7 November 1986): 602-604.

First lines: "Older men have been attracted to younger women before, patients to their nurses. Poems have been"... Citation: Commonweal 113.19 (7 November 1986): 602. Paul Wilkes.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has brought together in this little volume seventeen short poems most of which had pre"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (15 November 1949).

First lines: "Here, in a slender volume of poetry, the author of "Seven Story Mountain" distills modern Catholic"... Citation: Times-Star Cincinnati (24 December 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton is widely read as the author of two recent books, "The Seven Storey Mountain" and "The"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee (20 November 1949). John Pick.

First lines: "Individual poems do not necessarily reflect a poet's ability to create a body of work. Most of these"... Citation: Kenyon Review 9.2 (Spring 1947): 290-298. Howard Moss.

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: "new York, March 26--"What d'ya mean, 'best seller?'" asks the Saturday Review of Literature, and the"... Citation: Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 March 1949).

First lines: "Woods, Shore, Desert is a welcome addition to Thomas Merton's journal canon, splendidly edited"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 8:2 (Summer 1983): 4-7 [online]. [Accessed March 8th, 2017].

First lines: "Common wisdom holds that modern science was born in Europe in the age of Galileo"... Citation: Hartford Courant; Hartford, Conn. [Hartford, Conn]. Dec. 14 2003 G2.

First lines: "For some of the many followers of Father Thomas Merton, this latest book from the pen of the"... Citation: Herald-Post El Paso Texas (13 October 1951). Joseph Leach.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was once advised by Evelyn Waugh, who edited The Seven"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.1 (Easter 1995): 46-50.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was once advised by Evelyn Waugh, who edited The Seven"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.1 (Easter 1995): 46-50.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was once advised by Evelyn Waugh, who edited The Seven"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.1 (Easter 1995): 46-50.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was once advised by Evelyn Waugh, who edited The Seven"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.1 (Easter 1995): 46-50.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was once advised by Evelyn Waugh, who edited The Seven"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.1 (Easter 1995): 46-50.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's concern was with continuity and connections. He sometimes violated his own"... Citation: New Review of Books and Religion 3.6 (February 1979): 3, 17. George Woodcock.

First lines: "Among the most interesting pages in Thomas Merton's new book are those that this Trappist poet"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (4 July 1948) Babette Deutsch.

First lines: "'The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution,'"... Citation: Sign 31 (November 1951): 66. Katherine Bregy.

First lines: "Thomas Merton first came into prominence as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, a spiritual"... Citation: V Kirkus Bulletin NY City (15 September 1951). Brace Harcourt.

First lines: "Saint Paul tells us we are all called to be saints. For the prayer life of the saint a full"... Citation: Monitor San Francisco Calif (22 February 1952).

First lines: "Every reading, thinking person realized that "the present unrest in five continents, with everyone"... Citation: Book of the Month (September 1951). Pamela Taylor.

First lines: "Saint Paul tells us we are all called to be saints. For the prayer life of the saint a full"... Citation: America (23 February 1952).

First lines: "'The function of this book is to define the nature of the contemplative experience, to show"... Citation: Rev. Charles E. Diviney.

First lines: "An explanation of the value of contemplation, largely through the teachings of a 16th century"... Citation: Retail Bookseller NY City (September 1951).

First lines: "Still displaying a keen interest in the secular civilization surging around his cloister the"... Citation: Times NY City (17 November 1951).

First lines: "Brother Merton's thesis is that the contemporary world needs "a spiritual revolution" and that its"…

First lines: "If in his Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton gathered an audience and set the stage for that"... Citation: Renascence 4 (Spring 1952): 207-209. Sister M. Therese, SDS.

First lines: "This is the latest philosophical discussion by the popular Catholic writer, whose simplicity of"... Citation: Mirror Los Angeles California (10 November 1951).

First lines: "It is difficult I suppose, for a non-Catholic and a nonmystic to evaluate fairly a book like The"... Citation: Personalist (Spring 1953). E.L.T.

First lines: "In this book Father Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain, sets forth the thesis that only a"... Citation: Library Journal NY City (1 September 1952). L.S.

First lines: "An attitude of alarm that prevails among many thinking people could be one reason for Father Louis"... Citation: Ava Maria [Buffalo, NY] 75 (23 February 1952): 250. Richard J. Collentine.

First lines: "The author of this book and The Seven Storey Mountain is Father Louis of the Trappist Order and this"... Citation: Times Moncton, NB Canada (November 1951). Copy of 10a.

First lines: "The author of this book and The Seven Storey Mountain is Father Louis of the Trappist Order and this"... Citation: Times Moncton, NB Canada (November 1951). Copy of 09c.

First lines: "This book is not an autobiographical record as Father Merton's popular book, "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Chronicle San Francisco Calif (28 October 1951).

First lines: "The prologue of this book states its purpose as follows: "The function of this book is to define the"... Citation: Sun Telegram Lowell Mass (14 October 1951).

First lines: "The Asian Journal is not so much the final testament to the work and thought of Thomas Merton as it"... Citation: Journal of the American Oriental Society 97.1 (January-March 1977): 87-88. Thaddeus J. Gurdak.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, died in a tragic accident in Bangkok on Dec. 10, 1968. Merton was on"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (8 July 1973): 13. Edward Rice.

First lines: "This beautiful travel account begins with an eastward flight from Honolulu in 1968 by the late"... Citation: Prabuddha Bharata [Calcutta] 83 (July 1978): 318-319. A.S. Parameswar.

First lines: "The publication of this journal of Thomas Merton's last months, four and one-half years after his"... Citation: Sisters Today 45 (December 1973): 235-236. Frederic J. Kelly.

First lines: "Asian Journal has been on the book stands for several months now and, according to my bookshop"... Citation: Spiritual Life 20.1 (Spring 1974): 85-87. Daniel Yeaton.

First lines: "occasionally in a travelog we can be presented with "the insidious web of the psyche's weaving." A"... Citation: Review of Books and Religion 3 (Mid-January 1974): 1, 16. David L. Miller.

First lines: "It is twenty-seven years since the publication of Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. For those who"... Citation: Review for Religious 32 (November 1973): 1462-1463. Thomas N. Lay SJ.

First lines: "This personal, daily journal, written by Merton during his long-awaited trip to the Orient between"... Citation: Theological Studies 35.1 (March 1974): 222-223. Frederick J. Kelly SJ.

First lines: "Shortly before his untimely and accidental death in"... Citation: Long Island Catholic (July 19, 1973).

First lines: "'Thus finishes the book, but not the quest,' said Thomas Merton at the end"... Citation: Catholic Observer [Springfield, MA] (July 27, 1973): 1.

First lines: "While this book is so small that it almost falls into the non-book category, it is executed with the"... Citation: Independent-Journal San Rafael, CA (20 June 1970).

First lines: "A colleague of mine regularly drops off for my perusal the proceedings of a society"... Citation: Resources for American Literary Study 15.1 (Spring 1985): 49-59.

First lines: "A colleague of mine regularly drops off for my perusal the proceedings of a society dedicated to"... Citation: Resources for American Literary Study 15.1 (Spring 1985): 49-59. Ross Labrie.

First lines: "In "Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude," from Disputed Questions, Thomas"... Citation: Southwest Review 56.1 (Winter 1971): 86-90.

First lines: "The importance of this small volume lies chiefly in the talk by Thomas Merton to a rather"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 15:3 (Summer 1990): 23-24.

First lines: "The gesture of handing for review a book on monastic prayer to a suburban"... Citation: The Furrow 20.12 Supplement Books 9 (Winter 1969): 14-16.