| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | From a ball-point quill | Thomas Merton's first book of poems, A Man in the Divided Sea (including his previously published | Sweeney, Francis |
America 79 (19 June 1948): 272-274. Francis Sweeney.
| 1948 |
| 02 | Poetry, criticism, memoirs and shorter fiction | The Trappists and their life are becoming quite prominent on the American scene. Their latest move | |
America (13 November 1948)
| 1948 |
| 03 | The Ivory Tower | O brilliant wood / Yours is the voice of a new world. / And all the hills burn with such blinding | Hanlon, Frank |
Bulletin Philadelphia (11 April 1948). Frank Hanlon.
| 1948 |
| 04 | Books | In these days of meat and butter at a dollar a pound, it is wonderful indeed that for $2.50 a throw | Fremantle, Anne |
Commonweal 48 (13 August 1948): 430-431. Anne Fremantly
| 1948 |
| 05 | What if God Will? | It is difficult to appraise this new collection of poems by the Trappist poet, Thomas Merton without | Davidson, Gustav |
Courant Hartford CT (22 August 1948) Gustav Davidson.
| 1948 |
| 06 | Merton's Lates Religious Poetry Has Much Imagery | Robert Louis Stevenson defended Father Damien of lepers' Molokai with every flourish of his | Brady, Charles A. |
Evening News Buffalo (24 July 1948) Charles A. Brady
| 1948 |
| 07 | Review: Recent Verse | Of these five poets, one, Allen Tate, with a writing career of twenty-five years behind him, has | Davenport, Frederick Morgan |
Hudson Review 1 (Summer 1948): 258-266. Frederick Morgan Davenport
| 1948 |
| 08 | The Artist's and the Mystic's Approach | Among the most interesting pages in Thomas Merton's new book are those that this Trappist poet | Deutsch, Babette |
New York Herald-Tribune (4 July 1948) Babette Deutsch
| 1948 |
| 09 | Exciting, Low Voices | In the first of these volumes an exciting young voice speaks out - a voice humble yet authoritative | Griffin, John Howard |
Saturday Review of Literature [NY] (10 July 1948): 21, 26. Howard Griffin.
| 1948 |
| 10 | Life and Poems of a Trappist Monk | Because Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (the title refers to Dante's | Gregory, Horace |
New York Times Book Review (3 October 1948): 4,33. Horace Gregory
| 1948 |
| 11 | Book Reviews | About ten years ago Thomas Merton with a companion communist-minded student signed up for a course | Madeleva, Sister M., CSC |
Thomist 12 (January 1949): 101-106. Sister M. Madelveva, CSC.
| 1949 |
| 12 | The Nature of Conviction | Seldom does one come across a book eloquent not only of such a beneficent nature but also of great | Griffin, John Howard |
Voices 134 (1948): 60-62. John Howard Griffin.
| 1948 |
| 13 | Merton, Thomas. Figures for an apocalypse. 111p $2.50 New Directions | The third volume of poems by a Trappist monk, written at Our Lady of Gethsemani monastery in | Deutsch, Babette; T.H. Ferril |
Book Rev Digest (August 1949).
Contains excerpts of reviews by Babette Deutsch and T.H. Ferril
| 1949 |
| 14 | Merton, Thomas, O.C.S.O. Figures for an apocalypse. Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, 1948. 111p. | All of these poems have been written at the Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky | |
Catholic Booklist Rosary College River Forest Ill (1949).
| 1949 |
| 15 | Figures for an apocalypse, by Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (New Directions, $2.50) | New poems of Trappist convert, a prophetic outcry that defies the limitations of words; bound with | |
Catholic Messenger Davenport Iowa (22 April 1948)
| 1948 |
| 16 | Figures for an apocalypse. By Thomas Merton. New York: New Directions; $2.50 | A Trappist monk, encouraged by his superiors to pursue his art, is moving through states of "active" | |
Chronicle San Francisco California (13 June 1948).
| 1948 |
| 17 | Figures for an apocalypse. Thomas Merton. New Directions. $2.50. | This later poetry of Merton's relates with emotional power his spiritual odyssey from New York to a | |
Commonweal (3 Dec 1948)
| 1948 |
| 18 | Figures for an Apocalypse. By Thomas Merton. New Directions. $2.50 | Glowing poems, on religious themes, by a Trappist monk. | |
Journal [Milwaukee Wisconsin] (5 December 1948)
| 1948 |
| 19 | Figures for an Apocalypse By Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (New Directions, $2.50) | New poems of Trappist convert, a prophetic outcry that defies the limitations of words; bound with | |
Mirror [Springfield, Mass] (May 1948)
| 1948 |
| 20 | | Where Sullivan is objective and somewhat primitive, Trappist convert-poet Thomas Merton, in his | |
Pilot Boston Mass (17 April 1948).
| 1948 |
| 21 | | Other books of verse by writers whose work leaves the average reader more or less in the dark | |
Star Washington DC (7 December 1947)
| 1947 |
| 22 | | The library also has acquired a copy of Thomas Merton's latest book of poetry, "Figures for an | |
Tribune LaCrosse Wisconsin (13 April 1949)
| 1949 |
| 23 | Figures for an apocalypse | thesis and antithesis have at last met to produce synthesis in modern poetry, and the result is | Walsh, Chad |
Journal of Bible and Religion 17.2 (April 1949): 129. Chad Walsh
| 1949 |
| 24 | Poetry and Perfection | It is supposed that there is a great, tired, thick-headed public indifference to poetry, and that we | Fitzgerald, Robert |
Sewanee Review 56.4 (Autumn 1948): 685-697. Robert Fitzgerald
| 1948 |
| 25 | Arts and Poetry | Thomas Merton is a young Trappist monk in the monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky. This | Madeleva, Sister M., CSC |
Books on Trial 7 (July-august 1948): 63. Sister M. Madeleva CSC
| 1948 |
| 26 | A Third Merton | Figures for an Apocalypse comprises approximately forty poems (counting the initial eight part | McCauliff, George A. |
Spirit 15 (July 1948): 88-90.
| 1948 |