Title: Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism, American Christian poetry, Imagination in literature, Christian poetry, American, History, Merton, thomas, 1915-1968, Romanticism, united states, Christian poetry, history and criticism, Imagination
Places: United States
People: Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3525.E7174 Z766 2001