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Devout or not, thousands of U.S. readers have plowed through the books of Trappist Thomas Merton (The Seven Storey Mountain, The Waters of Siloe) with wondering attention. What makes a man give up the world? What is his life like when he does? Monica Baldwin's I Leap Over the Wall is Merton in reverse: the story of a British nun who went back to the world...
White Collar Zoo, Clare Barnes Jr. The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Carey The Greatest Story Ever Told, Fulton Oursler Peace of Soul, Fulton Sheen
...claims he has the road to salvation, and he called me damned, laying his hand upon me in so saying, for finding another road from his to the Christ he pretends to revere. He told me yesterday that Ernest Renan, Charles Dickens, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Merton ('a weak T. S. Eliot'), and Bishop Wright were damned...
...selecting his title, Thomas Merton has pointed out the inadequacy of the poems in this latest collection. The quote on the frontispiece from Leon Bloy reads "When those who love God try to talk about him, their words are blind lions looking for springs in the desert." Merton's lines are fervent and usually very expressive but, for the most part, fall short in the description of the Divine; the title, "Tears of the Blind Lions," suggests that the poet is lamenting his own failure to express his love for God in verse...
...clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological riddles. Merton has reproduced a poetic experience without contaminating the purity...