Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Notes for some talks on poetry

Item 1 - [01] Notes for Some Talks on Poetry 1965

First Lines:  "Movements." I. Coming to Little Gidding. II. Destination and Renewal - the Air Raid. III. Modern

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Item 2 - [02] Two Marian Poems of G M Hopkins

First Lines:  1) Generalities on Hopkins. 2) May Magnificat p 81. Slight and seemingly contrived. 1st 4 verses-

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Item 3 - [03] T. S. Eliot. [Little Gidding, etc.]

First Lines:  The "difficult" poets. How to read them. start with earlier works (eg. TSC- Murder in the Cathedral)

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Item 4 - [04] Background of Tragedy.

First Lines:  The emergence of 'axial man' in 6th-3rd centuries BC. Both in Far East, Near East, (Israel) and

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Item 5 - [05] [Confucian Da Xue (Ta Hsueh), "Great Learning"]

First Lines:  'Things have roots and branches. Affairs have their ends and their beginnings. To know what comes

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Item 6 - [06] Confucian idea of ritual - one

First Lines:  Li [Chinese characters in Merton's hand] - significance lies in notions underlying ritual a) sense

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Item 7 - [07] Ancient History

First Lines:  Between 3000-2000 BC. - cultural peak in Egypt, Babylonia. 2000-1000 - Egypt, Crete, Mycenae,

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Item 8 - [08] Poetry etc

First Lines:  Background. Tragedy. A.) Brilliant Greek culture did not advance technologically- why? Seems to have

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Item 9 - [09] Cornford Before and After Socrates. VI to IV Cent. BC. [Other Socrates notes/bibliog.]

First Lines:  Central position of Socrates - in the creation period of Soc. Philos. Converted Greek philos. from

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Item 10 - [10] Classical idea of literature as therapy

First Lines:  1) When men hear poetry "there entered into them a terrifying shudder, aptly full of tears,

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Item 11 - [11] Literature and Life

First Lines:  1) Deepest reflections on life sometimes found in literature, not in philosophy. Life connected with

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Item 12 - [12] Tragedy.

First Lines:  Lattimore. The Poetry of Greek Tragedy. Baltimore 1958. - Play for competition in liturgical

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Item 13 - [13] Aeschylus - The Persians.

First Lines:  Note. Contemporary theme. Not mythical - all takes place at Susa. After Battle of Salmis, 480 BC.

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Item 14 - [14] Antigone.

First Lines:  1) Opening lines - theory of the consequences of Oedipus' sin. The "problem"- an imperative of blood

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Item 15 - [15] Oedipus at Colonus.

First Lines:  'it breathes the calm of final attainment, a comprehension, almost, of all the problems which

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