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First lines: "Unlike his earlier books, Thomas Merton's lastest contains no personal history." Citation: Month [London] 4 (November 1950):347-348.

First lines: "Moving down a gentle decline from their source a third of a mile away, the waters of Siloe flow"... Citation: Catholic World 170 (December 1949): 198-203.

First lines: "After the dismaying neurosis of much of the serious writing from contemporary America, this account"... Citation: News Review London England.

First lines: "So, you think you've read Merton? Having enjoyed Robert Inchausti's wonderful and fresh"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 28:1 (Spring 2003): 24-25.

First lines: "In a presentation last year, Parker Palmer wryly noted that Thomas Merton is a case of"... Citation: American Catholic (April 2005): 13.

First lines: "Merton wrote compulsively and well throughout his career and this is documented in these 1046 pages." Citation: Commonweal 105 (3 February 1978): 93-94. Victor A. Kramer.

First lines: "The number of Thomas Merton's prose works and the general interest in his social commentary and"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 3.1 (Spring 1978): 5. John Leax.

First lines: "Thomas Merton personifies the spirit of transitional American Catholicism. He entered the monastery"... Citation: Thought 53 (March 1978): 112-115. George A. Kilcourse.

First lines: "The extraordinary success of Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, owes as"... Citation: Thought 24 (March 1949): 10-14.

First lines: "Readers of Thomas Merton's previous prose work--he also has two books of poetry to his credit--"The"... Citation: Gazette Montreal Canada (7 May 1949). D.R. Weston.

First lines: "Two of the most significant religious"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2532 (Aug. 11 1950): 505.

First lines: "The author of the now celebrated book "The Seven Storey Mountain" has again communicated with the"... Citation: Post-Dispatch St Louis MO (11 September 1949). Walter Still.

First lines: "Famed Trappist monk Thomas Merton corresponded with an extraordinary range of writers, among them"... Citation: Publishers Weekly (14 June 1993): 54.

First lines: "Eleven years ago Thomas Merton, now Father Louis, entered the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in"... Citation: New York Post (8 February 1953). Martha MacGregor.

First lines: "Thomas Merton became Father Louis, a Trappist monk, in 1942. He died in 1968 while on an Asian"... Citation: Newsday (26 August 1973):5. Silvia Tennenbaum.

First lines: "It is still disconcerting to realize"... Citation: The Pilot Boston Mass (16 February 1979): 8.

First lines: "Written particularly for the articulate Roman Catholic layman, this is an authoritative book on the"... Citation: Advertiser Montgomery Ala (25 February 1956). M.

First lines: "In the Book of Changes (or I Ching, Princeton University Press edition), the oracular classic of the"... Citation: Critic 28 (January - February 1970): 86-88. James Forest.

First lines: "Thomas Merton is his widely read The Seven Storey Mountain gave a moving account of his conversion"... Citation: New Republic 121 (12 September 1949): 17-18. Y.H. Krikorian.

First lines: "First, a few words about this book reviewer, so the reader may know who is speaking." Citation: Merton Seasonal 34:4 (Winter 2009): 37-39.

First lines: "This little book by Thomas Merton is an introduction to an Encyclical of Pope Pius XII (included at"...

First lines: "These recent releases once again confirm the amazing magnitude of Merton's literary endeavors. The"... Citation: Spiritual Life 31 (Fall 1985): 187. Steven Payne OCD.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book fall easily within the genre of personal reflections and meditations, as"... Citation: Renascence 8 (Spring 1956): 153-157. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.

First lines: "Thomas Merton found his life as a writer by losing it. He had taught English and had written fiction"... Citation: News Detroit MI (6 September 1970). Fred Shaw.

First lines: "The three years that have passed"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 3662 (May 5 1972): 527.

First lines: "One mourns the decline in quality of modern letters. Yet the monastery provided locale, occasion,"... Citation: Christian Century 102.31 (16 October 1985).

First lines: "'I believe my vocation is essentially that of a pilgrim and an exile in life, that I have no proper"... Citation: Review for Religious 46.5 (September-October 1987): 788-789.

First lines: "As a young monk, Thomas Merton was advised by Evelyn Waugh "to put books aside and write serious"... Citation: Journal of Religion 66.4 (October 1986): 458-459. Elena Malits.

First lines: "Since Thomas Merton's accidental death in 1968, we have seen everything from picture books on people"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (13 October 1985). Peter LaSalle.

First lines: "This is the first of what will be four volumes of the letters of Thomas Merton. This volume contains"... Citation: Horizons 13.1 (Spring 1986): 195-196. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, poet, and author of books on the spiritual and contemplative life,"... Citation: Center Magazine 18.6 (November-December 1986): 26-27. Donald McDonald.

First lines: "Thomas Merton once complained, in response to the fact that writing demands were constantly being"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 72.4 (October 1986): 683-684. D.Q. McInerny.

First lines: "Should Trappists write? Should they write about some things and not about others? As we know, Merton"... Citation: Cithara [St. Bonaventure University] 25.2 (May 1986): 82-83. Robert Lax.

First lines: "This first volume of Merton's letters, three more are planned, may prove to be one of the final"... Citation: Living Prayer 21.6 (November-December 1988): 61-62. Joan Williams OCD.

First lines: "Many of the entries in this collection of letters by one of the 20th century's original thinkers are"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 227.14 (5 April 1985): no.14, p.60. Paul M. Pearson.

First lines: "'When I reveal most, I hide most', Thomas Merton noted in a journal the year before he died. While"... Citation: Tablet [London] (26 February 2000): 265. Jim Forest.

First lines: "Not so long ago, Thomas Merton wrote in "The Seven Storey Mountain" the account of his quest for"... Citation: Sunday Courant Hartford Conn. (30 September 1951). James F. Looby.

First lines: "this is a book written by a man of God for men of God. As such it may also be of value to those men"... Citation: New York Times Book Review 60 (27 March 1955):4. Emile Cailliet.

First lines: "For weeks Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain has headed the list of non-fiction best sellers." Citation: News-Sentinel Knoxville, TN (1 May 1949). Lucy Templeton.

First lines: "For many years Thomas Merton has been a Trappist monk at Kentucky Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane." Citation: Times Chattanooga, TN (14 February 1965). T.B. Cowan.

First lines: "The well-known life of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), spiritual poet and monk, agent of change and"... Citation: Tidings [Los Angeles] (7 January 2000): 20-21. Frank Allen.

First lines: "Much has been made of the irony that Thomas Merton's reputation as a spiritual master was built to a"... Citation: Church History 69.4 (December 2000): 938-940. Peter A. Huff.

First lines: "In the Poet's Notebook, a collection of excerpts edited out of the notebooks of several American"... Citation: Journal of Religion 81.2 (April 2001): 290-292. Eric P. Elshtain.

First lines: "It is doubtful that any religious writer of the last century has achieved the circulation or"... Citation: Parabola 25.4 (November 2000): 92, 94, 99. Marvin Barrett.

First lines: "O brilliant wood / Yours is the voice of a new world. / And all the hills burn with such blinding"... Citation: Bulletin Philadelphia (11 April 1948). Frank Hanlon.

First lines: "Here is a strange and moving book, difficult to classify, difficult even to describe. Superficially,"... Citation: Month [London] 40 (October 1968): 211-212. Christopher Sykes.

First lines: "A biography of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a famous Trappist monk and the great preacher of the"... Citation: Retail Bookseller (May 1954). 2 copies, one original.

First lines: "The life history of St. Bernard, the great preacher of the Crusades, together with a study of his"... Citation: News Detroit Mich (27 March 1955).

First lines: "Those who have come to expect that Thomas Merton's book will have a message to the faithful bearing"...

First lines: "A biographical study of St. Bernard, his writings, and the recent papal encyclical on the 800th"... Citation: Record Chelsea Mass (4 August 1954).

First lines: "The commemorative encyclical Doctor Mellifluus, issued by Pope Pius XII on the eighth centenary of"... Citation: Sign 34 (28 August 1954). Geoffrey Ashe.

First lines: "In May, 1953 the Holy Father issued the encyclical Doctor Mallifluus to commemorate the eighth"... Citation: America 91 (17 July 1954). Damian J. Blaher, OFM.

First lines: "Although Thomas Merton left many unpublished manuscripts at the time of his death, this book comes"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 9 (28 September 1973): 7, 17. John Howard Griffin.

First lines: "Re-reading these "anti-letters" in order to offer a few comments on them for Merton Seasonal readers"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 19:4 (Fall 1994): 5-6.

First lines: "The occasion of Thomas Merton's latest book was the publication by Pope Pius XII, on Pentecost, 1953"... Citation: Pilot Boston Mass (31 July 1954). John J. Dacey.

First lines: "Here is a vivid portrayal of the Cistercian life, ideals and vows: that they be victims with Christ"... Citation: Magnificant 85 (November 1949): 51. W.P.N.

First lines: "Many a reader of "The Seven Storey Mountain" may have felt an urge, temporary or relatively"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (18 Sept 1949). George Shuster.

First lines: "the hefty volume of six hundred tightly-packed pages contains nearly all of Fr. Thomas Merton's"... Citation: American Book Review 5 (November-December 1982): 14-15. Paul Mariani.

First lines: "To Thomas Merton, the writer's vocation -- whether creative or critical -- is a high calling. So, he"... Citation: Courier Journal (11 April 1982): D5. Wade Hall.

First lines: "With the publication of this hefty volume the Merton shelf grows yet longer. For those readers who"... Citation: Horizons 9 (Fall 1982): 409-410. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "Thomas Merton burst upon the American literary scene in 1948 with his best-selling Seven Storey"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 34.3 (Spring 1983): 73-75. Dewey Weiss Kramer.

First lines: "John Donne, the Anglican clergyman who wrote beautiful metaphysical verse 300 years ago, has been"... Citation: Santa Fe (Cath.) Register (15 April 1955). Paul H. Hallett.

First lines: "At once poet, prose stylist and theologian, Fr. Louis expounds the reality of the Eucharist in the"... Citation: America (2 March 1957).

First lines: "'The Living Bread' is a book in which the most profound truth of Christ's Church the Holy Eucharist,"... Citation: Globe Siouix City Iowa (8 March 1956).

First lines: "Mr. Merton is a famous novelist. He is also a famous churchman. His writings have attracted the"... Citation: Herald Dutham, NC (21 October 1956). G.K.C.

First lines: "Defined as "a meditation on the sacred mystery of the Eucharist," this book demonstrates the depths"... Citation: Mercury-News San Jose California (4 March 1956).

First lines: "Despite the wide acceptance of his books, Thomas Merton (Father M. Louis, OCSO) is not yet the poor"... Citation: Catholic Light Sacramento, PA (29 march 1956). Thomas J. Crawley.

First lines: "This is not a defense of doctrine but a Trappist's meditation on the Living Bread. He treats the"... Citation: Sign (April 1956).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who is Father Louis of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, writes of"... Citation: Tribune South Bend IN (8 July 1956).

First lines: "The Living Bread by Thomas Merton is the high point of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy's spring list, a"... Citation: Publishers Weekly (28 January 1956).

First lines: "A Trappist poet's meditations on the Holy Eucharist." Citation: New York Times (3 June 1956).

First lines: "In the latest of a distinguished output of writings, Thomas Merton has chosen as his subject the"... Citation: Sentinel Orlando FL (6 May 1956).

First lines: "*Defined as "a meditation on the sacred mystery of the Eucharist" this book"... Citation: Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (1 February 1956).

First lines: "When Jesus stood in the crowd at Capharnaum of Galilee and made the astounding statement "I am the"... Citation: News San Francisco California. M.M.

First lines: "This is an eloquent meditation on the Eucharist, written at the suggestion and request of members of"... Citation: Episcopal Church News (1 April 1956).

First lines: "This book was written at the request of a group of diocesan priests who have banded together for the"... Citation: Worship 30 (July-August 1956): 489. Kilian McDonnell OSB.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who is Fr. Louis of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, has again"... Citation: Republican Springfield Mass (1 April 1956). R.O'C.

First lines: "'Geography comes to an end,/Compass has lost all earthly north,/Horizons have no meaning/Nor roads"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (9 January 1978). Robert Kirsch.

First lines: "For the last three years of his life, Thomas Merton was a Desert Father. After a quarter of a"... Citation: Lexington Herald-Leader (23 December 1990): F6. Guy Davenport.

First lines: "Perhaps there is just a slight misnomer in the subtitle William Shannon chose for this first"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 10:3 (Summer 1985): 16-19 [online]. [Accessed March 7th, 2017].

First lines: "When The Seven Storey Mountain appeared, it answered many questions about modern society and the"... Citation: America 88 (21 February 1953): 569-570. Spanish translation published in Digesto Catolico in June 1953 - "El Significado de Thomas Me.

First lines: "This collection of over 1,000 pages of verse, prose-poems, humorous poems, translations, down to"... Citation: Tablet [London] 232 (6 May 1978): 431-432. Kathleen Raine.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's celebrity was a paradox: The more he seemed to withdraw from the world, the more"... Citation: Crisis 16 (July-August 1998): 46-47.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's celebrity was a paradox: The more he seemed to withdraw from the world, the more"... Citation: Crisis 26 (July-August 1998): 46-47.

First lines: "A monk of Gethsemani once sent me a ribbon bookmark on which is imprinted a monk seated by a window,"... Citation: Catholic Worker 44 (January 1978): 8. Anne Marie Fraser.

First lines: "Toward the end of his life the American contemplative, Thomas Merton (1915-1968), wrote, "Our real"... Citation: Sisters Today 50 (May 1978): 659. Frederic J. Kelly SJ.

First lines: "This volume is a selection of twelve later essays of Merton dealing with monastic life or closely"... Citation: Review for Religious 38 (January 1979): 153. Sister Donald Corocorcan OSB.

First lines: "Toward the end of his life the American contemplative Thomas Merton (1915-68) wrote: "Our real"... Citation: Theological Studies 39 (September 1978): 588-589. Frederic J. Kelly SJ.

First lines: "'The problem of the contemplative orders in the presence of modern man, is a problem of great"... Citation: New Review of Books and Religion 2 (April 1978): 16. James W. Crawford.

First lines: "Thomas Merton does not lack for a wide audience. His books are being re-issued and are being sold"... Citation: St. Luke's Journal of Theology 22 (September 1978): 326-327. Robert Giannini.

First lines: "While writings about Thomas Merton appear almost monthly, it is something of an event when a new"... Citation: Horizons 6 (Spring 1979): 150. Mark Quinn.

First lines: "Many a man has heard the distant call of monastic life. I have heard it myself no only on visits to"... Citation: Atlantic (May 1949).

First lines: "A book just published by New Directions of New York is a must for all students of Thomas Merton. It"... Citation: National Catholic Register 48 (26 August 1973): 4-5. Paul H. Hallett.

First lines: "To judge from the Catholic press, the Church's activity today is as vigorous as it has ever been." Citation: Commonweal 62.6 (13 May 1955): 155-159. Aelred Graham.

First lines: "Seldom does one come across a book eloquent not only of such a beneficent nature but also of great"... Citation: Voices 134 (1948): 60-62. John Howard Griffin.

First lines: "The growth of interest in mysticism"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] 2619 (Apr. 11 1952): 256.

First lines: "We are too preoccupied with the new, said Henry Thoreau, and not enough concerned with the permanent"... Citation: Southern Review 1 (Autumn 1965): 926-929. Roger K. Meiners.

First lines: "Ever since Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton's public and critics have anticipated the fulfillment"... Citation: Ave Maria 95 (3 February 1962): 26. Bernard Hrico ?].

First lines: "Reviewers like to use superlatives when appraising Thomas Merton's books. This book deserves them." Citation: Jubilee 9 (March 1962): 52. Kathryn Sullivan RSCJ.

First lines: "The mind and the pen of Thomas Merton have proved themselves remarkably fertile; and the singular"... Citation: Critic 20 (March 1962): 72. John L. McKenzie, SJ.