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Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also one letter from Merton published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 172-173.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
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1965/10/21 |
TLS to Merton |
In connection with a book I am writing on Rabindranath Tagore & the West (in which I am |
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asks thoughts on Tagore's influence on the English-speaking West / list of "Tagore's earliest champions in the West": "Yeats & Pound, Hart Crane & Joyce Kilmer, Gide & St-John Perse, Anna de Noailles & Jouve, Jiménez & Neruda" / Tagore's vogue corresponds to Spengler and Keyserling
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1965/10/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your kind letter in which you ask for my personal reaction to Rabindranath Tagore. |
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appreciation of Tagore by Merton's father and mother (Owen Merton and Ruth Merton) / Merton mostly knows from plays by Shaw and Ibsen - has book of his translations of Kabir - "admire[s] his ideas" but thinks he "is dated in some ways" / admires two other Indians more - Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy
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1966/03/21 |
TALS to Merton |
It staggers me to realize that your kind letter on Tagore -- & the two books "Chuang Tzu" |
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quoting Merton in his book on Tagore / Ananda Coomaraswamy's Theory of Art in Asia / T. S. Eliot / asking to visit Merton / "Original Child Bomb"
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