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Thomas Merton must have seemed an unlikely candidate for best-selling author. Cloistered in a remote Kentucky monastery, Merton struggled as a young man to reconcile his intrinsic desire to write with his chosen life as a Trappist monk.
James Laughlin encountered Merton's work early, when it was still firmly rooted in religious theme and form. Although he had created the New Directions Publishing Corporation as a means of participating in the fledgling modernist literary movement, Laughlin recognized in Merton's poetry a profound voice that even the strictest self-censorship could not hide. He encouraged the young monk to follow his poetic instincts and was richly rewarded.
Merton developed into one of Laughlin's most daring authors, revealing in poems and essays a tremendous world view encompassing issues of race, politics, war, and the spiritual decay of modern society. Nearly thirty years of lively correspondence documents this remarkable literary and personal relationship. The different perspectives of Merton and Laughlin produce a fascinating portrait of the times, and their letters open an important window into the life and mind of Thomas Merton.
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Correspondence, Trappists, Moral and ethical aspects, Publishers and publishing, American Poets, Moral and ethical aspects of Authorship, Authors and publishers, Authorship, History, Merton, thomas, 1915-1968, Laughlin, james, 1914-1997, Authors, correspondencePlaces
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Thomas Merton and James Laughton: Selected Letters
1997, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
0393340031 9780393340037
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Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: selected letters
1997, W.W. Norton
in English
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0393040690 9780393040692
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