| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | A Selection of merton Poems | It was 15 years ago that new Directions published a slim volume called "Thirty Poems" --Thomas | Habich, William |
Courier-Journal [Louisville] (31 January 1960): William Habich
| 1960 |
| 02 | The Vision and the Poem | Thomas Merton's "Selected Poems" is a book in which the appendix demands to be read first. Merton | Johnson, Carol |
Poetry 96 (September 1960): 387-391. Carol Johnson
| 1960 |
| 03 | Out of Gethsemani | The recent numerous reprints and translations of articles by Thomas Merton in such foreign | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Renascence 15 (Fall 1962): 46-50. Sister M. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS
| 1962 |
| 04 | Spirit Poets in Print | Here, at least, is something of an answer to the sometimes not-too-carefully-made charge that SPIRIT | Rayne, Allan |
Spirit 27 (May 1960): 59-62. Allan Rayne
| 1960 |
| 05 | Four Books | Since I wish to devote a good part of this review to Carol Hall's book, and since space is at a | Turco, Lewis |
Voices 172 (May-August 1960): 39-42. Lewis Turco
| 1960 |
| 06 | Poetry and Passion | There is justness as well as wit in Mr. Allan M. Laing's "New Statesman" epigram (22nd April, 1950) | Enright, D.J. |
Month [London] 5 (April 1951): 247-248. D.J. Enright
| 1951 |
| 07 | Selected Poems of Thomas merton. Intr. By Robert Speaight. London: Hollis and Carter. | To the swiftly increasing numbers of foreign editions of "Mertoniana"--the "Seven Storey Mountain," | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Renascence 4 (Spring 1952): 197-199. Sister M. Therese Lentoehr SDS
| 1952 |
| 08 | Thomas Merton as a Poet: Form and Content | For a double reason passing judgment on "The Poems of Thomas Merton" is an unenviable task. | Quin, I.T. |
Irish Monthly 79 (September 1951). I.T. Quin
| 1951 |
| 09 | Tasting the terrible sweetness | Older men have been attracted to younger women before, patients to their nurses. Poems have been | Wilkes, Paul |
Commonweal 113.19 (7 November 1986): 602. Paul Wilkes
| 1986 |
| 10 | Merton scholars can benefit from 4 works | It has been 18 years since the death of Thomas Merton, the internationally acclaimed Trappist monk | Kiser, Thelma Scott |
Sunday Independent [Ashland Ky] (27 June 1986): 12. Thelma Scott Kiser
| 1986 |
| 11 | Book Reflects True Meaning of Christmas | In Kentucky poetry circles "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton" is certainly an exciting | Kiser, Thelma Scott |
Ashland Daily Independent (25 December 1977). Thelma Scott Kiser
| 1977 |
| 12 | Poetry from Merton to Greet New Year | Poetry is the only real way to mediate the functional supernatural, the auguries of this Janus month | Brady, Charles A. |
Buffalo Evening News (1 January 1978). Charles A. Brady
| 1978 |
| 13 | The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton | Merton wrote compulsively and well throughout his career and this is documented in these 1046 pages. | Kramer, Victor A. |
Commonweal 105 (3 February 1978): 93-94. Victor A. Kramer
| 1978 |
| 14 | Thomas Merton's poems -- a mystic's sense of the real | It is commendable that Merton's poems from 1940-68 have been brought together in a single volume and | Patnaik, Deba P. |
Courier-Journal Louisville KY (29 January 1978). Deba P. Patnaik
| 1978 |
| 15 | The Seventy Time Seventy Seven Storey Mountain | There is first of all the gargantuan size of the book. Zounds! It compares impressively with The | Berrigan, Daniel |
Cross Currents 27 (Winter 1977-78): 385-393. Daniel Berrigan
| no-year |
| 16 | Monk's Journey | Thomas Merton's popularity rests chiefly on his autobiography. "The Seven Storey Mountain" is the | Prendergast, Alan |
Leviathan (April 1978): 14-15. Alan Prendergast
| 1978 |
| 17 | Poetry | Merton's poems, covering a wide range of social and religious issues, illustrate his humanistic and | Craft, Carolyn M. |
Library Journal 103 (15 March 1978): 668. Carolyn M. Craft
| 1978 |
| 18a | The Log of a Spiritual Odyssey | "Geography comes to an end,/Compass has lost all earthly north,/Horizons have no meaning/Nor roads | Kirsch, Robert |
Los Angeles Times (9 January 1978). Robert Kirsch
| 1978 |
| 18b | The Ultimate Merton | The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions, $37.50) presumably is the entire and final | Murray, G.E. |
Panorama - Chicago Daily News (7-8 January 1978). G.E. Murray
| 1978 |
| 19 | Book Reviews | In one of the many books (Contemplation in a World of Action) that appeared after his bizarre death | Woodcock, George |
Malahat Review [Victoria, British Columbia] 46 (April 1978): 148-151. George Woodcock
| 1978 |
| 20 | Merton: Phenomenon and Poet | When New Directions published Thomas Merton's first collection in 1944, Robert Lowell remarked that | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Milwaukee Journal Book Review (16 February 1978): 23. Sister Therese Lentfoehr, SDS
| 1978 |
| 21 | The Sounds of Silence | That Thomas Merton was an extraordinary man no one doubts. Born in France, Jan. 31 1915, the son of | Kostelanetz, Richard |
New York Times 127 (5 February 1978): Sect. 7, p.20. Richard Kostelanetz
| 1978 |
| 22 | Monk leaves legacy of love | "The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton" (New Directions. 1,048 pages; $15 paperback) is an | Munger, Guy |
News and Observer (31 August 1980). Guy Munger.
| 1980 |
| 23 | | Robert Lowell said it in 1945 of Thomas Merton's first book of poetry: "Unfortunately, Merton's work | Malits, Elena, CSC |
Notre Dame English Journal 11 (October 1978): 71-74. Elena Malits CSC
| 1978 |
| 24 | The voice of contemplation | Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain, which first appeared in this country 30 years ago under the | Toynbee, Philip |
Observer [London] (12 March 1978): review section 32. Philip Toynbee
| 1978 |
| 25 | | The potpourri of books listed above represents one small eddy in the stream of books and monographs | Cunningham, Lawrence S. |
Parabola 6 (Winter 1981): 109-113. Lawrence S. Cunningham
| 1981 |
| 26 | Monk of the Western World | It is incredible to think that nearly a decade has passed since the death of Thomas Merton. Was he | McDonnell, Thomas P. |
Pilot [Boston] 148 (18 November 1977). Thomas P. McDonnell
| 1977 |
| 27 | Books In Breif -- Splendid Liners | Though the Trappist monk, Robert Merton, died almost a decade ago, his verse is still read, and | |
San Francisco Examiner (22 January 1978)
| 1978 |
| 28 | The Merton legacy | This collection of over 1,000 pages of verse, prose-poems, humorous poems, translations, down to | Raine, Kathleen |
Tablet [London] 232 (6 May 1978): 431-432. Kathleen Raine
| 1978 |
| 29 | The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. Ed. James Loughlin. New York: New Directions. 1977. Pp 1046. | Thomas Merton personifies the spirit of transitional American Catholicism. He entered the monastery | Kilcourse, George A. |
Thought 53 (March 1978): 112-115. George A. Kilcourse
| 1978 |
| 30 | Canticles for a Godless Age | It is no accident that there is more bad religious poetry written than bad poetry of any other kind | Jacobsen, Josephine |
Washington Post (25 December 1977). Josephine Jacobsen
| 1977 |
| 31 | | Monk, mystic, poet, and prophet Thomas Merton has been dead for 10 years. Yet reprints and analyses | |
Wilson Quarterly 2 (Summer 1978): 164.
| 1978 |
| 32 | Selected poems of Thomas Merton | From his retreat at Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky, the Trappist monk has chosen sixty-eight poems | |
New York Times Book Review (6 March 1960).
| 1960 |
| 33 | Poetry | This is rich fare, profuse, engaging, sometimes puzzling, more often absorbing, the entire poetic | O'Donnell, Robert, SJ |
Best Sellers 37 (March 1978): 395. Robert O'Donnell SJ.
| 1978 |
| 34 | The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton | The number of Thomas Merton's prose works and the general interest in his social commentary and | Leax, John |
Merton Seasonal 3.1 (Spring 1978): 5. John Leax
| 1978 |
| 35 | A Potpourri of Thomas Merton's Poetry | Buried in the middle of this thick book - a 1,048-page potpourri if themes, | Huckaby, Mary Pjerrou |
Los Angeles Times (December 14, 1980).
| 1980. |
| 36 | | This massive collection contains all of the poetry | JJ |
ALA Booklist (March 1, 1978).
| |
| 37 | | There are really two Mertons: one the Sufi, the mystic, the desert saint | |
Choice (July-August 1978).
| 1978. |
| 38 | | Cet enorme volume de plus de mille pages contient | Hart, Patrick, OCSO |
Collectanea Cisterciensia 40 (1978).
| 1978. |
| 39 | | Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton | Devlin, Vianney M., OFM |
The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.
| 1978. |
| SEASONAL | | The number of Thomas Merton's prose works and the general interest in his social commentary | Leax, John |
Merton Seasonal 3:1 (Spring 1978): 5 [online]. [Accessed March 20, 2017]
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/03/3-1Leax.pdf
| 1978 |
| XREF1 | Merton's Affirmation and Affirmation of Merton: Writing about Silence | Thomas Merton chose to be a cloistered contemplative within one of the most austere religious orders in the United States. | Kramer, Victor A. |
Review [Charlottesville, VA] 4 (1982): 295-333 [see review author file].
| 1982 |