Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination
By: Ross Labrie.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Romanticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Christian poetry, American -- History and criticism.; Imagination in literature.
Description: "Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist monk, a social activist, and a poet. Author of the celebrated autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton has been described as the most important American religious writer of the past hundred years.

One of the notable characteristics of Merton's writing, both in poetry and in prose, was his seamless intermingling of religious and Romantic elements, an intermingling that, because of his gifts as a writer and because of his enormous influence, has had the effect of making widespread a distinctive form of religious thought and expression.

In Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination, Ross Labrie reveals the breadth of Merton's intellectual reach by taking an original and systematic look at Merton's thought, which is generally regarded as eclectic and unsystematic.".

"This work, which takes into account material from the recent full publication of Merton's journals and from his Columbia University notebooks on Romanticism, not only shows Merton's intellectual growth but provides a look at his expansive interests as well. Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination is a significant contribution to Merton studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.