| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year | 
		
			| 01 | A kinsman to many | A decade ago, when I took the first tentative, frightened step toward an evaluation | Baker, James T. | 
						Commonweal 108 (1 April 1981): 214-216. 
							
						 | 1981 | 
		
			| 02 | Recent Merton Criticism | Shortly before Thomas Merton left on his Asian journey in 1968, his friend Edward Rice | Cooper, David D. | 
						Renascence 34.2 (Winter 1982): 113-128. 
							
						 | 1982 | 
		
			| 03 |   | Thomas Merton once said, "An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. | Corr, Thomas J. | 
						College Literature 8 (1981): 203-204. 
							
						 | 1981 | 
		
			| 04 |   | Thomas Merton held a very special position among modern American prose writers. | Martin, Jay | 
						American Literature 51.4 (January 1980): 583-584. 
							
						 | 1980 | 
		
			| 05 |   | In 1977 New Directions published The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (paperback | Cunningham, Lawrence S. | 
						Horizons 8 (Spring 1981): 170-171. 
							
						 | 1981 | 
		
			| 06 |   | The author, a poet herself, was the privileged confidante of Merton the poet from 1939 until his | Lewis, Kevin | 
						Journal of the American Academy of Religion 48.4 (December 1980):  637-638. 
							
						 | 1980 | 
		
			| 07 | Charting the Spirit of Merton | Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain," published in 1948 | Montag, Tom | 
						Milwaukee Journal (17 June 1979). 
							
						 | 1979. | 
		
			| 08 |   | Sister Therese Lentfoehr's Words and Silence: On the Poetry of | Murray, Brian | 
						Christianity and Literature 30.2 (Winter 1981): 100-101. 
							
						 | 1981. | 
		
			| SEASONAL |   | Sister Therese Lentfoehr is a recognized poet and scholar in her own right (she has published three | Hart, Patrick, OCSO | 
						Merton Seasonal 4:2 (Summer 1979): 12 [online]. [Accessed March 20, 2017] 
							http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/04/4-2Hart.pdf
						 | 1979 | 
		
			| XREF1 | Merton's Affirmation and Affirmation of Merton: Writing about Silence | Thomas Merton chose to be a cloistered contemplative within one of the most austere religious orders in the United States. | Kramer, Victor A. | 
						Review [Charlottesville, VA] 4 (1982): 295-333 [see review author file]. 
							
						 | 1982 |