MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Herbert, Rembert
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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967
Volume: 1 item(s); 3 pg(s)
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Rembert Herbert recalls Bach's Christmas Oratorio in relation to a rush of "emotionalism" in reading a section from The Seven Storey Mountain. Despite evoking an emotional response which he relates to the transcendence of music, Herbert is not moved to faith and to prayer, "I see that you are not being sentimental, you are speaking from a vision I have never seen."
Biography
In 1967, while writing this letter to Merton, Rembert Herbert was nearing graduation at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of English at Hunter College High School in New York. He has published a number of books on Gregorian chant.
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