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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ciardi, John".
John Ciardi, according to the title of a lecture series on Ciardi, was a "Poet - Translator - Critic - Editor" (the lecture's brochure is included in the correspondence file). He long served as the Poetry Editor for the Saturday Review in New York, and in this capacity writes to Merton. He is noted for making poetry accessible to the public.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "White, Jo Anne" file.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1963/07/29 |
HLS to Merton |
I have just returned to the office from a five week trip to find your letter and to learn at the |
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Merton's "And the Children of Birmingham" poem - went to presses without insertion of quotation marks / have to wait to put in "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion"
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1967/01/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
J. Laughlin writes me that you want to take out the third stanza from the poem "First Lesson on Man" |
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Merton thinks poem is better without third stanza / Merton asks whether "Prophetic Ambiguities" ever made it into the Saturday Review
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1982/10/22 |
other |
John Ciardi [-] Poet - Translator [-] Critic - Editor [-] BELLARMINE COLLEGE [-] Friday, October 22, |
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program for lecture to be delivered on John Ciardi by Robert E. Daggy (Bellarmine College Archivist and Director of the Thomas Merton Center)
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