Thomas Merton and the inclusive imagination / Ross Labrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labrie, Ross.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Merton, Thomas.

Romanticism--United States--History--20th century.

Romanticism.

Christian poetry, American--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, American.

Imagination in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6279-1

OCLC:

179133373