| Author Quoted | Arthur Rimbaud |
| Title Quoted | Season in Hell |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1950/02/25 |
| Imprint | New York : New Directions. 1939 |
| Quotation | Bob promised me Eliot's Cocktail Party and I am eager to see it. The Novice Master would not let Season in Hell through to his novice who wanted it so I've got it. Rimbaud writes about hell someone earmarked for heaven and I like the book. |
| Quotation Source | Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.; Edited by David D. Cooper. / New York: W.W. Norton. 1997, p. 68 |
| Letter to | James Laughlin |
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