| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | The Tears of the Blind Lions By Thomas Merton. New Directions. 32p. $.50 | "When those who love God try to talk about Him, their words are blind lions looking for springs in | Sweeney, Francis |
America 83 (8 April 1950): 1950.
| 1950 |
| 02a | Merton, Thomas | "These poems seem somewhat complicated and labored. There is something of the spirit of Bloy-a | Kennedy, Leo; Anne Fremantle, Milton Crane, R.G. Davis, M.T. Lentfoerhr |
Book Rev Digest (August 1950); contains excerpts of reviews by Leo Kennedy, Anne Fremantle, Milton Crane, R.G.
| 1950 |
| 02b | The Tears of the Blind Lions. Thomas Merton. New Directions. $1.25. | Poetry is to prose as liquer to wine: cognac is made of the same grapes as burgundy, but by how | Fremantle, Anne |
Commonweal 51 (10 March 1950): 586.
| 1950 |
| 02c | | Thomas Merton, once a surrealist poet and now Father Louis of the Cistercian Order of Trappists in | No Author Listed |
Chicago Sun (17 April 1950).
| 1950 |
| 02d | Poetry | The Tears of the Blind Lion by Thomas Merton (New Directions. $.50) is the third book of poems from | No Author Listed |
America (13 May 1950).
| 1950 |
| 03 | Reviews in Brief: | Merton's The Tears of the Blind Lions is uneven poetry-even within a single poem the quality varies | Johnson, Manly |
Hopkins Review 3 (1949): 54-55.
| 1949 |
| 04a | Devotion in Verse | Thomas Merton's newest volume of poetry is concerned, not surprisingly, with the themes that have | Crane, Milton |
New York Times 54 (27 November 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04b | Tears of the Blind Lion. By Thomas Merton. (New Directions, $1.25) | Here, in a slender volume of poetry, the author of "Seven Story Mountain" distills modern Catholic | No Author Listed |
Times-Star Cincinnati (24 December 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04c | Tears of the Blind Lions: Trappist Thomas Merton, Author of 'Seven Storey Mountain,' Offers a Slim | Thomas Merton is widely read as the author of two recent books, "The Seven Storey Mountain" and "The | Pick, John |
Journal Milwaukee (20 November 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04d | Mystical Metaphors | In this collection of poems the author has revealed more of himself than he did in his other books. | Therese, Sister, O.S.B. |
News Birmingham (24 December 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04e | | Contrarily, I find a slackened tension and forced note in the new poems of Thomas Merton, The Tears | No Author Listed |
Journal Providence (21 December 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04f | | Although Thomas Merton's latest book of poetry "The Tears of the Blind Lions" may be considered "dif | No Author Listed |
Catholic Messenger Davenport (December 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04g | New Merton Poems | Thomas Merton, best known as the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," is also an excellent poet. | No Author Listed |
Express San Antonio (27 November 1949).
| 1949 |
| 04h | Trappist Monk Turns | A new, small sheaf of devotional poems by the author of the widely popular "The Seven Storey | No Author Listed |
Times Los Angeles (8 January 1950).
| 1950 |
| 04i | The Tears of the Blind Lion. By Thomas Merton. New Directions, New York. 32 pages. $1.25. | Someone has remarked that for a silent Trappist, Thomas Merton does quite a bit of talking. | O'Connor, Madeleine |
Argonaut San Francisco.
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| 05a | Father Merton Pends Noteworthy New Verse of Old Year | Father Merton's most recent volume of verse confirms our convictions that he is the most important | Holley, Fred |
News Charleston SC (1 January 1950).
| 1950 |
| 05b | The Tears of the Blind Lions. By Thomas Merton. New Directions. $1.25 | These 17 religious poems by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," mostly in a warmly sensitive | No Author Listed |
Enquirer Cincinnati Ohio (14 January 1950).
| 1950 |
| 05c | Merton, Thomas. The Tears of the Blind Lions. | Short poems by the author of The Seven Storey Mountain show great beauty though the imagery is often | No Author Listed |
Guidepost Cincinnati Ohio (February 1950).
| 1950 |
| 06 | Devotion In Verse | Thomas Merton's newest volume of poetry is concerned, not surprisingly, with the themes that have | Crane, Milton |
New York Times 54 (27 November 1949).
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| 07a | Where Silence Is a Ministry | There seventeen poems were written under a monastic rule of great austerity, where "night is our | Davis, Robert Gorham |
Saturday Review of Literature 33 (11 February 1950).
| 1950 |
| 07b | Between Book Ends: Thomas Merton's Poetry | This small and beautifully printed collection of devotional poems by Thomas Merton, the young | Firebaugh, Joseph J. |
Post-Dispatch St Louis Mo (1 February 1950).
| 1950 |
| 07c | The Tears of the Blind Lions, by Thomas Merton. New Directions; $1.25 | Much of the bitter power of Merton's earlier poetry is gone from this newest collection of 17 poems. | McGarey, Mary |
Dispatch Columbus (5 February 1950).
| 1950 |
| 07d | Poems by Merton | Readers who have followed the literary career of Thomas Merton, meteoric since "The Seven Storey | C.V. |
Tennessean Nashville. C.V.
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| 07e | Verse | Seventeen new poems by the now famed Trappist monk, dedicated to Jacques Maritain. Merton again | No Author Listed |
New Yorker (11 March).
| no-year |
| 07f | | Thomas Merton, the author of "The Seven Story Mountain" and "The Waters of Siloe" and other books | No Author Listed |
Traveler Boston Ma (13 February 1950).
| 1950 |
| 07g | Merton, Thomas. Tears of the blind lions [poems]. 32p $1.25; pa 50c New directions | "These poems seem somewhat complicated and labored. There is something of the spirit of Bloy-a | Hanlon, E.R.; Anne Fremantle; Milton Crane; and R.G. Davis |
Book Rev Digest (March 1950). Contains excerpts of reviews by 4 reviews.
| 1950 |
| 07h | 'The Tears of the Blind Lions' | Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who came into worldly prominence with "The Seven Storey Mountain," | No Author Listed |
Star Indianapolis In (15 January 1950).
| 1950 |
| 08 | Merton's Most Recent Poems | The continued appearance of poems by Thomas Merton in SPIRIT, Poetry, Partisan Review, Horizon and | Toelle, Gervase, O. Carm. |
Spirit 16 (January 1950): 195-197.
| 1950 |
| 09 | Thought | When Thomas Merton's poetry first was printed, it was received in Catholic circles with perhaps | Clancy, Joseph P. |
Thought 25 (September 1950): 524.
| 1950 |
| 10a | Voice of Silence | Thomas Merton's small new book of verse-the verse of one "Planted in the night of contemplation / Se | Saul, George Brandon |
Courant Hartford Conn (27 November 1949).
| 1949 |
| 10b | The Tears of the Blind Lions $1.50 | New poems by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain." Also available as a pamphlet in an envelope | No Author Listed |
Retail Bookseller NY City (Nov 1949).
| 1949 |
| 10c | The Tears of the Blind Lions $1.25 | New poems by the author of "The Seven Storey Mountain." Also available as a pamphlet in an envelope | No Author Listed |
Retail Bookseller (October 1949).
| 1949 |
| 10d | | Thomas Merton, author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," who has had two books published this year, has | No Author Listed |
| 1949 |
| 10e | | Thomas Merton, who should be able to underwrite a new Trappist monastery with the royalties from his | No Author Listed |
New York World-Telegram (11 November 1948).
| 1948 |
| 10f | Tears of the Blind Lion | Thomas Merton has brought together in this little volume seventeen short poems most of which had pre | No Author Listed |
Virginia Kirkus Bulletin (15 November 1949).
| 1949 |
| 11 | Ten Poets | My Obviously biased impression is that the specifically war poetry of World War II was better than | Flint, R.W. |
Kenyon Review 12.4 (Autumn 1950): 705-708, 710-712.
| 1950 |
| 12 | Four Men and Three Women | We have recently had installed din our sing a Disposall, and its name has of course stirred the | Whittemore, Reed |
Sewanee Review 58.4 (October-December 1950): 717-727.
| 1950 |
| 13 | | The lyrics in these several books--whose authors have all contributed to The Catholic World | Hanlon, Elizabeth R. |
Catholic World 170 (February 1950): 397-398.
| 1950 |
| 14 | Poised Against… | Thomas Merton's latest volume | James, Mary, S.S.N.D. |
The Pilot Boston Mass 120 (17 December 1949): 16.
| 1949 |