¹ Percy, Walker, Love in the Ruins (New York: Dell, 1972), p. 1.Google Scholar Interestingly enough Percy, in Lost in the Cosmos (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1983), pp. 241ff.Google Scholar has an engaging piece of phantasy in which, among the final survivors of a nuclear holocaust, three Benedictine monks help reconstitute the world.

² W. H. Ferry has privately published some letters of Thomas Merton under the rubric Letters from Tom which gives us a taste of this side of Merton. See: Kilcourse, George, “New Phase of Merton Studies,” The Merton Seasonal (Summer 1984), 14–15.Google Scholar

³ Griffin's struggles with ill health and his work on the Merton biography are recounted in his moving The Hermitage Journals, ed. Beasley, Conger Jr., (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Image, 1983).Google Scholar

⁴ Malits, Elena, The Solitary Explorer: Thomas Merton's Transforming Journey (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980).Google Scholar Of the dozen or so critical volumes on Merton on my shelf, this is the best by far.

⁵ Padovano, Anthony, The Human Journey (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982).Google Scholar

⁶ Lentfoehr, Sister Thérèse, Word and Silence; On the Poetry of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1979).Google Scholar