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Helen Louise Gardner, Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford University known for her studies of the Metaphysical poets, received the degree of Doctor of Letters, as did Paton and Senghor...
...kind of mind that can easily mingle references to Henry James, Robbe-Grillet and Li-yü with equations on dam overflow, yarns about wharf characters and slices of local history. It is the kind of mind that can see The Story of O and Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain as two monastic classics and, like Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn, revel in naming objects for their own sake. Jones' notes at the ends of his chapters are models of tart New England wit and his conversations with his friends have the unworldly, though undeniably human quality...
...SYCAMORE TREE: THE GOOD TIMES AND HARD LIFE OF THOMAS MERTON by Edward Rice. 144 pages. Doubleday...
...Seven Storey Mountain, the best-selling 1948 autobiography that made a young Trappist monk named Thomas Merton a worldwide sensation, dealt with only part of a life that ended suddenly when Merton, studying Buddhism in Asia, was accidentally electrocuted in Bangkok in 1968. Edward Rice's ingenuous, openhearted memoir rounds out the 33 Mountain years and gives substantial shape to Merton's later years. As biography, the book is frankly worshipful...
...Rice was Merton's boon companion at Columbia University, his godfather for baptism in the Catholic Church, and a lifelong friend. It is nonetheless a fuller, richer portrait of Merton than any available, partly because Trappist censors seriously bowdlerized Merton's own books. The handsomely designed work is full of Rice's kaleidoscopic recollections; tantalizing snatches of Merton's books, letters and poetry, both published and unpublished; pages of photographs; even a few breezy, Picasso-like nudes drawn by Merton shortly before he entered the monastery. Merton the Columbia undergraduate emerges as an accomplished rapscallion, occasionally...