Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

"Merton is a modest, not altogether satisfactory minor writer. But he is also, as far as my experience goes, easily the most promising of our American Catholic poets and, possibly, the most consequential Catholic poet to write in English since the death of Francis Thompson. Why the last forty years of the Catholic literary revival, which have seen the prose of Chesterton, Dawson, and Waugh, have produced nothing as lasting as the light verses of Bellec is no doubt due to complex, partially intangible, causes. We must take what comes. What Merton writes is his own, subtle, and intense. So small and genuine an achievement is worth consideration."Merton, Thomas is the author of 'Collected Poems of Thomas Merton' with ISBN 9780811207690 and ISBN 0811207692.