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Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811207692
"With the [publication of this book], an ever-wider audience may more fully appreciate the ... range of the poet's technique, the scope of his concerns, and the humaneness of his vision"--Back cover.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811230711
Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social critic: the late Thomas Merton was all these things. This classic selection from his great body of poetry affords a comprehensive view of his varied and progressively innovative work. Selected by Mark Van Doren and James Laughlin, this slim volume is now available again as a wonderful showcase of Thomas Merton’s splendid poetry.
Author : Thomas Merton,l9l5-68 Merton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:815606496
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:20838954
Author : Thomas Merton,Lynn R. Szabo
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811223102
A new, broad, comprehensive view of the innovative poetry of the late, great Trappist monk and religious philosopher Thomas Merton. Poet, Trappist monk, religious philosopher, translator, social criticthe late Thomas Merton was all these things. Until now, no selection from his great body of poetry has afforded a comprehensive view of his varied and largely innovative work. In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton is not only double the size of Merton's earlier Selected Poems (1967), it also arranges his poetry thematically and chronologically, so that readers can follow the poet's multifarious interrelated lines of thought as well as his poetic development over the decades, from his college days in the 1930s to his untimely accidental death in Bangkok in 1968 during his personal Eastern pilgrimage. The selections are grouped under eight thematic headings"Geography's Landscapes," "Poems from the Monastery," "Poems of the Sacred," "Songs of Contemplation," "History's Voices: Past and Present," "Engaging the World," "On Being Human," "Merton and Other Languages."
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811209318
Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Education
ISBN : 0811200981
Thomas Merton's final testament as a poet is his most ambitious long work and a remarkable poetic achievement.
Author : Thérèse Lentfoehr
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811207137
Words and Silence: On the Poetry of Thomas Merton brings to the study of the late Trappist monk's verse the special perceptions born of a friendship of nearly three decades' duration. It started with a brief correspondence between two poets in 1939, two years before Merton entered the monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky, and lasted until his tragic accidental death in 1968. Throughout these years, Sister Therese Lentfoehr held a number of university positions in her native Wisconsin and elsewhere, all the while amassing an extensive Merton archival collection, including various drafts of individual poems and prose pieces, translations, books and pamphlets, and even portions of hand-written private journals. The comparison of variant readings--sometimes three or four drafts of a single poem--proved invaluable in preparing this study. But of greater worth was the continued intellectual sharing that not only gave Sister Therese growing insight into Merton the monk and contemplative but afforded her a working understanding, as it were, of his poetic vision. Beginning with his pre-Trappist writing and his first published collection in 1911, Sister Therese systematically analyses the entire corpus of Merton's poetry--the earlier monastic preoccupations to the later Zen influences, the recurrent religious and social themes, the increasingly surreal imagery, and the developing "antipoetry" of his final books. Provided with a bibliography and index, Words and Silence is a recommended companion to The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (1977), a key to the very mind and spirit of an extraordinary monk and poet.
Author : Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062245083
Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life. Never before published except as a series of articles (one per chapter) in an academic journal, this book on contemplation was revised by Merton shortly before his untimely death. The material bridges Merton's early work on Catholic monasticism, mysticism, and contemplation with his later writing on Eastern, especially Buddhist, traditions of meditation and spirituality. This book thus provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. Merton was still tinkering with this book when he died; it was the book he struggled with most during his career as a writer. But now the Merton Legacy Trust and experts have determined that the book makes such a valuable contribution as his major comprehensive presentation of contemplation that they have allowed its publication.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811224161
The Psalms, which Thomas Merton called "one of the most valid forms of prayer for men of all time," are the most significant and influential collection of religious poems ever written, summing up the theology of the Old Testament and serving as daily nourishment for the devout. Bread in the Wilderness sets forth Merton's belief that "the Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ, to feed those who have followed Him into the wilderness." Merton's goal in this moving book is to help the reader enter into the Psalms: "The secret is placed in the hands of each Christian. It only needs to be discovered and fulfilled in our own lives." The new ND Classic edition of Bread in the Wilderness faithfully reproduces the beautiful, large-format original 1953 New Directions books, created by the celebrated designer Alvin Lustig and lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs of a remarkable medieval crucifix at Perpignan, France.
Author : Patrick F. O'Connell
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626980235
This volume provides a broad cross-section of Merton's work as an essayist, collecting pieces that are characteristic examples of his astonishing output and the fantastic breadth of his interests. The essays range from the wisdom of the desert fathers to the novels of Faulkner and Camus, from interreligious dialogue to racial justice.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780811219952
A great introduction to the religions of the East by a monk from the West. Merton’s biographer, George Woodcock, once wrote that “almost from the beginning of his monastic career, Thomas Merton tentatively began to discover the great Asian religions of Buddhism and Taoism.” Merton, a longtime social justice advocate, first approached Eastern theology as an admirer of Gandhi’s beliefs on non-violence. Through Gandhi, Merton came to know the great Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita and in time came to have dialogues with the Dalai Lama and Taoist leader D. T. Suzuki. Merton then became deeply interested in Chuang Tzu and Zen thought. On Eastern Meditation, edited by Bonnie Thurston (author of Merton and Buddhism), gathers the best of his Eastern theological writings into a gorgeously designed gift book edition.
Author : Zhuangzi,Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0811201031
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780811219723
Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. "Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite--one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the 'nothing,' the 'no-body' that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey." This gets at the humor, paradox, and joy that one feels in Merton's discoveries of Zen during the last years of his life, a joy very much present in this collection of essays. Exploring the relationship between Christianity and Zen, especially through his dialogue with the great Zen teacher D.T. Suzuki, the book makes an excellent introduction to a comparative study of these two traditions, as well as giving the reader a strong taste of the mature Merton. Never does one feel him losing his own faith in these pages; rather one feels that faith getting deeply clarified and affirmed. Just as the body of "Zen" cannot be found by the scavengers, so too, Merton suggests, with the eternal truth of Christ.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811216136
From the Publisher: A new view of the innovative poetry by the late, great Trappist monk and religious philosopher.