| Author Quoted | Robert Lowell |
| Title Quoted | For the Union Dead |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/11/16 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1964 |
| Quotation | Brother Antoninus [William Everson], tall, bowed, gentle, benevolent, given to quiet laughter was here from Friday to Sunday... Told me I [Emblems of a Season of Fury] was well reviewed by [Haydn] Carruth in the Hudson Review. I had vaguely heard of this but not seen it. Brother Antoninus did not like [Robert] Lowell's new book. Offended by its destructiveness, its desiccation, and Lowell's obsession with destroying that in himself that might save him. But for my part (less compassionate no doubt) I liked its hardness (For the Union Dead). |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 165-66 |
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