| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | Babel Theory | Thomas Merton's new book of poems is dull, daunted and reminiscent of Eliot. These three qualities | Logan, John |
Commonweal 66 (5 July 1957): 357-358. John Logan
| 1957 |
| 02 | Thomas Merton as Poet | The popularity of Thomas Merton's autobiographical and contemplative prose works has resulted in | Habich, William |
Courier-Journal [Louisville] (21 April 1957).William Habich
| 1957 |
| 03 | Urbanity and Grace | The third book of poems by Howard Moss is an extremely accomplished collection. The poems differ in | Merwin, W.S. |
New York Times Book Review (26 May 1957): 28. W.S. Merwin
| 1957 |
| 04 | Sacred and Secular | The Strange Islands is Thomas Merton's first collection of new poems in eight years. The prodigious | Justice, Donald |
Poetry 91 (October 1957): 41-44. Donald Justice
| 1957 |
| 05 | A Fair Sampling | Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and professiona | Beach, Joseph W. |
Prairie Schooner 31 (Fall 1957): 171-181. Joseph W. Beach
| 1957 |
| 06 | A New Manner | Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Renascence 10 (Summer 1958): 214-218. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS
| 1958 |
| 07 | Sincerity and the Muse | Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and | Hall, Donald |
Saturday Review 40 (6 July 1957): 29. Donald Hall
| 1957 |
| 08 | On What Strange Islands? | Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and | McDonnell, Thomas P. |
Spirit 24 (July 1957): 85-87. Thomas P. McDonnell
| 1957 |
| 09 | The River is Always the Same River | In Collected Poems, Joyce's Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and Ecce Puer are made available at a | Napier, John T. |
Voices 165 (January-April 1958): 35-37. John T. Napier
| 1958 |
| 10 | In the Presence of Anthologies | From the beginning, Thomas Merton's verse has presented many difficulties; these result not so much | Dickey, James |
Sewanee Review 66.2 (Spring 1958): 304-305. James Dickey
| 1958 |
| 11 | Singers for the Summer Months | Too often the Muse, with bright but vainly beating wings, flutters around our book columns, seeking | Morgan, Edwin G. |
America 97 (13 July 1957): 408.
| 1957 |
| 12 | Acts of Faith | The publication of poetry in translation | Dickinson, Patric Thomas |
Times Literary Supplement [London] 2913 (Dec. 27 1957): 789.
| 1957. |
| 13 | The Strange Islands | In his commentary on his own | Steed, Robert |
Catholic Worker (May 1957).
| 1957. |