Books Cited by Merton

Below is a list of all recorded references by Merton to a book he was reading which were recorded in the seven volumes of his personal journals, the original five volumes of his correspondence, and a growing list of other books by Merton with an emphasis on Merton's published correspondence. The list can be sorted by each column by clicking the column header (another click reverses the sort). Clicking the excerpt of the quote will display a page with the full quote and more information about the quote and book citation.

This database was compiled by Willy Eurlings, chairman of the Mertonvrienden, the Dutch-speaking Merton Society from Flanders and the Netherlands, with technical help by Fieke Julius. The Merton Center is grateful for his permission to post this for use by researchers.

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Click here to browse subject CATEGORIES which link to related sources.    CLICK ANY COLUMN HEADER TO SORT      CLICK ANY COLUMN HEADER TO SORT    Date [Source] Author Quoted Title Quoted Quotation by Merton [link to full quote] 1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 142-43]   Bhagavad Gita Truthfully I have an enormous obscure subtle thesis that Blake is all full of Indian and Chinese theories of a.. 1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144] James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i.. 1938/08/11 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 144] James Joyce Ulysses I have read Portrait of the Artist which is certainly a remarkable fine book, and the best thing I have read i.. 1939/05/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 3] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions Saint Augustine's problems are everybody's, except he did not have a war to worry him. The 12th chapter [in ot.. 1939/05/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 3] Marcus Tullius Cicero De Oratore Cicero, De Oratore, recommends stamping your foot during your speech. At least at the beginning of the speech .. 1939/05/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 3] William Wordsworth Trosachs [John] Berryman is right about Wordsworth being a good poet. I read his sonnets in the Oxford Book today. "The.. 1939/05/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 4] Benedetto Croce Filosofia di G.B. Vico I suppose I am not reading Croce on Vico very carefully [Note 4: Vico's La Scienza Nuovo (1725) is a philosoph.. 1939/05/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 4] Giambattista Vico Scienza Nuova I suppose I am not reading Croce on Vico very carefully [Note 4: Vico's La Scienza Nuovo (1725) is a philosoph.. 1939/05/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 4] James Joyce Finnigans Wake I suppose I am not reading Croce on Vico very carefully [Note 4: Vico's La Scienza Nuovo (1725) is a philosoph.. 1939/05/12 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 5] Robert Bridges Milton's prosody Last fall I worked hard and today I am up and working too - getting notes on Bridges' Milton's Prosody and eve.. 1939/05/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 11] Herodotus Histories Herodotus [Note 10: Merton was reading Herodotus's Histories, the first great prose work in European literatur.. 1939/08/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 147] Valery Larbaud Amants Heureux Amants I found this French guy Valery Larbaud to be some good guy too. I just got his novel, Amants Heureux Amants, i.. 1939/08/24 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 15] Ezra Pound Culture Ezra Pound's new book Culture is perfectly lousy, his writing disgusting, his opoinions stink, his conceit is .. 1939/09/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 21] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions Because ambitious men are absurd, the same suspiciousness towards ambition literature has fallen upon confessi.. 1939/09/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 21] Blaise Pascal Provincial Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises. / translated by W.F.Trotter, in Great Books of the Western World A model sentence from Pascal. Maybe everyone who wants to write should, before he even starts, consider this s.. 1939/09/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 21] Jean Jacques Rousseau Confessions Because ambitious men are absurd, the same suspiciousness towards ambition literature has fallen upon confessi.. 1939/09/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 22] A.O. Barnabooth Journal Intime. Two Quotations: 1 Valery Larbaud - A.O. Barnabooth, Son Journal Intime, p.121 (cf. yesterday remarks on ambiti.. 1939/09/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 22] Blaise Pascal Provincial Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises. / translated by W.F.Trotter, in Great Books of the Western World 2. Pascal - Pensees - VI.408. "Le mal est aise, il y en a une infinite; le bien, presque unique. Mais en certa.. 1939/09/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 23] Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae The difference: Pascal considering man in the light of the fall, original sin, redemption, etc. recognizes as .. 1939/10/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 151] Thomas Aquinas De Ente et Essentia One of the most extraordinarily difficult things I have ever tried to do is understand St. Thomas' De Ente et .. 1939/10/01 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 37-38] Guillaume Apollinaire Anecdotiques This Afternoon, read a few pages of Guillaume Apollinaire's Anecdotiques up in the library... [p.38] Biograph.. 1939/10/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 40] George Peele Old Wives Tale I did read Peel's "Old Wives Tale" last night and fount it good. Also more of Apollinaire's Anecdotiques - ful.. 1939/10/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 40] Guillaume Apollinaire Anecdotiques I did read Peel's "Old Wives Tale" last night and found it good. Also more of Apollinaire's Anecdotiques - ful.. 1939/10/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 45] Dante Alighieri Paradiso. English & Italian. The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri Began reading Dante's Paradiso today, out of Douglaston, after Mass. More splendid than anything else before i.. 1939/10/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 51] Aurelius Augustinus Confessions About prayer... The past and the future, not real. Only the present is real. In eternity "all is present." (Sa.. 1939/10/16 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 58] Aurelius Augustinus Refutation of the Pernicious Teaching of those who would deter men from entering Religious Life Saint Thomas, in the Opusculum XVII, "Refutation of the Pernicious Teaching of those who would deter men from .. 1939/10/16 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 59] Francis, Saint little flowers of St. Francis. The mirror of perfection. The life of St. Francis On his [Dan Walsh] advice, after he had arranged an interview for me, I went to see Father Murphy, at the mona.. 1939/10/22 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 66] Jules Laforgue Complaintes I think the best modern poetry is being written in France, has been for the last fifty years. Between 1880 and.. 1939/10/31 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 80] Aldous Huxley Those barren leaves 39. "Siena mi fe, disfecemi Maremma." ["Siena gave me life, Maremma took it away."24 ]Dante.Remember it be.. 1939/11/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 84] Thomas Aquinas De Ente et Essentia The value of the distinction in De Ente et Essentia, cap. II, where Plato's separate forms are attacked and di.. 1939/11/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 86] Ezra Pound Lustra Reading my diary for 1931, which I ought to destroy, I am surprised at my childish paganism. Announcing what I.. 1939/11/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 86] T.S. Eliot Waste Land Reading my diary for 1931, which I ought to destroy, I am surprised at my childish paganism. Announcing what I.. 1939/11/19 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 88-89] James Joyce Finnigans Wake Now look you: there have been three important things that have happened this year1. The publication of Finneg.. 1939/11/20 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 92] James Thurber Life and Hard Times I have spent weeks telling my class to write out of their own experience: and they write best when they do, to.. 1939/11/20 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 92] William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale Today I bought Saroyan's Inhale and Exhale and opened it - very exciting and poignant and funny and terrible a.. 1939/11/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 93] William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale It is very interesting and exciting to read Saroyan and it is certain enough that he has some good even if nob.. 1939/12/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 97] Theresa of Avila O.C.D. Interior Castle Saint Theresa [of Avila] - The Interior Castle-says we must not dwell on selfknowledge alone, but pass on from.. 1939/12/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 104] Herbert J.C. Grierson Methaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. The books on my bed are Grierson's Metaphysical Poets, Bossuet (whom I haven't read a line of yet), Saroyan, t.. 1939/12/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 102-03] William Saroyan Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapese and Other Stories Whatever I said about Inhale and Exhale doesn't apply to the Daring Young Man. Very good. Much better than "I... 1939/12/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 102-03] William Saroyan Inhale and Exhale Whatever I said about Inhale and Exhale doesn't apply to the Daring Young Man. Very good. Much better than "I... 1939/12/17 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 106] Federico Garcia Lorca Romancero Gitano. Poema del Cante Jondo. Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias Lorca is easily the best religious poet of this century. I wish I could stop trying to make judgments-"best in.. 1939/12/17 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 108] William Saroyan Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapese and Other Stories To tell the class: important what a writer's attitude towards life is. Cf. the Preface to Daring Young Man, wh.. 1939/12/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 112] Aldous Huxley Those barren leaves I have always had a prejudice against buying a book of short stories. I steered clear of Huxley's Those Barren.. 1939/12/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 121] Herbert J.C. Grierson Methaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. I opened up Grierson's Metaphysical Poets and saw on the page Donne's "Nocturnal upon Saint Lucie's Day": tod.. 1940/01/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 122] Henry Osborn Taylor Medieval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages A New Year-it feels like a New Year: a new decade. In his book about The Medieval Mind [Note 27: Henry Osborn.. 1940/01/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 135] Ignatius of Loyola Spiritual Exercises I have been going through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius. Not giving them four hours a day but at a.. 1940/01/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 134] Robert Curzon Visits to Monasteries in the Levant I have got Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant from the Library and right away I am going to read it. The seven.. 1940/01/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 138] Aristotle works of Aristotle / Aristotle ; transl. into English under the editorship of W.D. Ross I guess if I want to I can work this down to the old familiar (to me) dilemma of Plato and Aristotle-which one.. 1940/01/24 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 144] Wystan Hugh Auden Dance of Death W. H. Auden's trick: ratio-announcers: parody of banal radio announcements-parodying trivialities of commercia.. 1940/01/24 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 144] Wystan Hugh Auden On the Frontier W. H. Auden's trick: ratio-announcers: parody of banal radio announcements-parodying trivialities of commercia.. 1940/01/25 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 146] Francis Aidan Gasquet English Monastic Life Gasquet's English Monastic Life [Note 29: Abbot (Cardinal Francis Aidan) Gasquet's (1848-1929) English Monasti.. 1940/01/28 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 9] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion I have just corrected eighty-six English exams in one of which I read: "Chaucer's ABC was a dirty character in.. 1940/01/28 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 9] Bonaventura Itinerarium I have just corrected eighty-six English exams in one of which I read: "Chaucer's ABC was a dirty character in.. 1940/02/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 149] Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer dies the Swan Reading Huxley's new book-After Many a Summer and being very uncomfortable about it-it is so bad... 1940/02/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 150] Irwin Edman Candle in the Dark: A Postscript to Despair Reading Maritain's Introduction to Philosophy and finding it very exciting, stimulating, entertaining, clear, .. 1940/02/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 150] Jacques Maritain Introduction to Philosophy / Translated by E. I. Watkin - Foreword by Ralph McInerny Reading Maritain's Introduction to Philosophy and finding it very exciting, stimulating, entertaining, clear, .. 1940/02/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 153] Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse, Pale Rider I just picked up Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Ann Porter, and read the first story, while the afternoon.. 1940/03/19 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 154] Graham Greene Brighton Rock Graham Greene's Brighton Rock is good all the way from the quotation on the flyleaf, from The Witch of Edmonto.. 1940/03/29 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 159-60] Thomas Philip Terry Terry's Mexico There exists a figure in American literature who is a very interesting sort of figure, in his own strange way,.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 165] Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer dies the Swan All that stuff, since Huxley made such a fool of himself in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, seems to be so .. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 166] D.H. Lawrence Saint Mawr Another thing about this room [in Miami]: it smells like some place where I have read a lot before, some place.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 166] Federico Garcia Lorca Romancero Gitano. Poema del Cante Jondo. Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias I admit freely that I looked at a couple of García Lorca's poems, from the Poema del Cante Jondo, on the beach.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 194] Philip Terry Terry's Guide to Cuba The canonazo (cannon shot) fired from Morro Castle at nine p.m. is the signal for many social functions to sta.. 1940/04/00 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 166] Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Another thing about this room [in Miami]: it smells like some place where I have read a lot before, some place.. 1940/05/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 220] Francis, Saint little flowers of St. Francis. The mirror of perfection. The life of St. Francis Most of the time wrote and wrote: a Journal, longhand, in a ledger. A novel that has perplexed three publisher.. 1940/05/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 219] Ignatius of Loyola Spiritual Exercises Going through the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius... 1940/05/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 220] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Most of the time wrote and wrote: a Journal, longhand, in a ledger. A novel that has perplexed three publisher.. 1940/05/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 222] Gregorius the Great Homiliae in Evangelia "It shall happen to you for a testimony" (Luke, xxi. 13) and Saint Gregory the Great makes the comment that a.. 1940/05/28 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 224] Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain / translation from German Der Zauberberg I am in no mood to read [Thomas Mann's] The Magic Mountain, which is the kind of book I find tedious anyway. I.. 1940/06/16 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 8] Aurelius Augustinus City of God Meanwhile I sit in the sun and look at the trees and wear a white tennis hat and wait for it to be August. I h.. 1940/10/19 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 238-39] William Empson Seven types of ambiguity by William Empson Some of the errata listed in the English Edition of Seven Types of Ambiguity are funny. To excuse one sentence.. 1940/10/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 240-41] Bonaventura Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi [After several quotations from S.Bonaventura commentaria in librum secuncum sententiarum] Visio beatifica: the.. 1940/10/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 243]   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight again today and it is one of the best books in the world, the gayest and .. 1940/11/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 247-48] Bonaventura Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi "Infinitum dicitur dupliciter, scilicet per privationem perfectionis; et sic materia dicitur infinita, et tali.. 1940/11/03 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 250] John Donne Poems of John Donne / ed. H.J.C. Griesron The other thing I have just understood for the first time is Donne's Ecstasy. I have been reading it for years.. 1940/11/03 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 250-51] Robert Herrick Hesperides: or the Works both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, Esq. / British Poets, edited by F.J. Child Another thing: I am no longer sore at Herrick, or not as sore as I was. I think he is a Highschool boy, yes. B.. 1940/11/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 256] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner The first time I ever read the Ancient Mariner was in Saint Antonin, when I was about eleven. The Mayor's olde.. 1940/11/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 259] Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling A week ago today I bought Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling at the Oxford University Press, and have since talk.. 1940/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 262] Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling I have read more of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. Fr. Philotheus laughed uproariously for happiness when I.. 1940/12/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 275] Bonaventura Itinerarium For Saint Bonaventure there is no distinction between charity and sanctifying grace. Charity is sanctifying gr.. 1941/01/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 283] Leon Bloy Celle qui pleure. Notre Dame de la Salette Foolishly I talked about Bloy's book Celle qui Pleure [She Who Weeps] and the old lady thought, concerning the.. 1941/01/16 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 291-295] Anselmus of Canterbury Proslogion [Eleven quotations of Saint Anselm Proslogion Cap. I, c. 226-236] d.d. januari 14-16, 1941.. 1941/01/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 296] Leon Bloy Woman Who Was Poor I will go back to reading the The Woman Who Was Poor. And the Woman Who Was Poor is some novel! The second par.. 1941/02/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 481] Paul Valery Variety "In numerous minds is to be found the coexistence of faith and atheism, of anarchy in the sentiments and of so.. 1941/02/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 304] Dante Alighieri Inferno. English & Italian. The Inferno of Dante Alighieri But it is still the best epic poem, the best poem, I ever read - I mean the wholeDivine Comedy... 1941/02/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 301] T.S. Eliot Waste Land This morning, sitting alone at a big empty table in the vasty hall of the caf' I reflected upon the elegant wo.. 1941/02/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 305] Dylan Thomas 18 Poems I've got a book of poems by Dylan Thomas and I can't put the book down. I read him in Horizon and it was a goo.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 307] Bonaventura Itineris Mentis in Deum Long quotation of S. Bonaventura Itineris Mentis in Deo. Cap. II.7... 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] E.M. Forster Passage to India That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] Richard Hughes In Hazard That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] Robert Bridges Milton's prosody That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/02/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 308] Robert Curzon Visits to Monasteries in the Levant That spring in that front room on Perry Street I read some good books. Hopkins' letters; Bridges' Milton's Pro.. 1941/03/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 317] Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Then tonight I read Robinson Crusoe and when he comes on the island I was knocked flat at the wonder of what a.. 1941/03/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 320-21] Bonaventura Itineris Mentis in Deum Long quotations from S. Bonaventura Itin. Ment. in Deum. Cap III... 1941/03/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 328] Bonaventura Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi Saint Bonaventure on the problem of the relation of the intellect, memory and will, to the substance of the so.. 1941/04/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 337] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo S. BERNARDI DE DILIGENDO DEO.Causa diligendi Deum, Deus est; modus, sine modo diligere. Cap. 1. ["The cause o.. 1941/04/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 337] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ And they must; that is part of His kindness: for if church windows and psalms and hymns always filled us, ever.. 1941/04/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 339] Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae The process may take days-or years. We think we possess some idea; then, by a series of accidents, through a l.. 1941/04/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 338-39] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ "Write My words in thy heart, and think diligently on them; for they will be very necessary in the time of tem.. 1941/04/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 342-453] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo Several quotations from Bernard of Clairvaux. De Diligendo Deo.. 1941/04/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 356] Etienne Gilson Spirit of Medieval Philosophy Leaving Gethsemani was very sad....I went to the Cathedral [of Louisville], then to the Public Library: there .. 1941/04/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 356] Evelyn Waugh They were still dancing Leaving Gethsemani was very sad....I went to the Cathedral [of Louisville], then to the Public Library: there .. 1941/04/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 357] Graham Greene Journey without Maps Difference between the First and Second Times I spent a few hours in Louisville, between trains...The first t.. 1941/05/05 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 360] Graham Greene Another Mexico Also I had just finished reading Greene's book about Mexico. The one about Africa, that I glanced at in Louisv.. 1941/05/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 364] P. Mandonnet Dante le Theologien. Introduction à l'intelligence de la Vie, des Oevres et de l'Art de Dante Alighieri Then I was less happy reading Mandonnet's "Dante le Theologien." It makes you slightly unhappy to read a guy .. 1941/05/14 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 366] Etienne Gilson Spirit of Medieval Philosophy An argument I had with Bill Fineran in the Gold Rail Bar, in 1936; I was attacking the Church, and said the ex.. 1941/06/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 376] George Gordon Coulton From Saint Francis to Dante I just refrained from heaving out the window the only book I've tried to read in weeks except stuff about Dant.. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 377] F.W. Bateson ed. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature I am distressed at having to pay so much attention to things like Mudge's Guide to Reference Books but other b.. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 378] Graham Greene Another Mexico Right this minute I am inclined to think G. Greene's book about Mexico is better than Brighton Rock, and also .. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 378] Graham Greene Brighton Rock Right this minute I am inclined to think G. Greene's book about Mexico is better than Brighton Rock, and also .. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 377] Isadore Gilbert Mudge Guide to Reference Books I am distressed at having to pay so much attention to things like Mudge's Guide to Reference Books but other b.. 1941/06/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 377] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos The other night I read some of Saint John of the Cross' Cantico Espiritual which I understood much better than.. 1941/07/06 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 379] Federico Garcia Lorca Así que pasen cinco años I also like Lorca's "Así que Pasen Cinco Años." The rugby player, the child and the cat (some scene) the mann.. 1941/07/06 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 378] Jean Cocteau Grand Ecart Today I reread the scene where Jacques and Germaine quarrel over the stupid lines from Victor Hugo, "Gall, ama.. 1941/07/13 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 379] Etienne Gilson God and Philosophy "True metaphysics does not culminate in a concept, be it that of thought, of good, of one or of substance. It .. 1941/08/04 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 383] Edward Leen Progress through Mental Prayer A cleric lends me Leen's Progress through Mental Prayer which is pretty good... 1941/08/21 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 385-86] Leon Bloy Invendable. I am not as sore at religious as the Baroness [is]-or Leon Bloy. No reason why I should not be except for the .. 1941/08/28 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 386] Leon Bloy Salut par les Juifs "Les Juifs ne se convertiront que lorsque Jesus sera descendu de sa Croix, et precisement Jesus ne peut en des.. 1941/08/31 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 389] Leon Bloy Dans les Tenèbres "Entre l'homme, revêtu involontairement de sa liberte, et Dieu depouille volon-tairement de sa puissance, l'an.. 1941/09/01 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 392] Damon Runyon Damon Runyon Omnibus I read Damon Runyon whom I never, until this, read. He is good because of his style. I laughed more at him tod.. 1941/09/02 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 394-402] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Several quotations of De Imitatio Christi of Thomas a Kempis in Latin with English translation.. 1941/09/05 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 402] Leon Bloy Dans les Tenèbres I just finished reading Bloy's Dans le Tenebres. One of the things I liked best about it was his wife's prefac.. 1941/09/18 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 409] Leon Bloy Mon Journal Leon Bloy's Vocation (in a letter-Mon Journal, p. 71.)"Pourquoi ne supposeriez-vous pas que ma vocation est p.. 1941/09/26 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 410] Coventry Patmore Poems In spite of a stupid, pompous, inanity stuck in the front of the Phoenix Library Edition of [Coventry] Patmore.. 1941/09/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 417] Aurelius Augustinus De Beata Vita Where did all the rest of the time go-? I taught two classes, corrected some papers, read a few pages of [Chri.. 1941/09/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 417] Christopher Dawson Progress and Religion. A Historical Inquiry Where did all the rest of the time go-? I taught two classes, corrected some papers, read a few pages of [Chri.. 1941/09/30 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 417] Francis Aidan Gasquet Henri VIII and the English Monasteries And yet I have done altogether too much sleeping with my face in a book-today I went to sleep in Chapter I of .. 1941/10/03 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 421-22] Aldous Huxley Gray Eminence It would not be true to say I got mad reading the review of Huxley's new book Gray Eminence in Time... I don'.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 431-32] Henri Gheon Sainte Therèse de Lisieux I have just read straight through Gheon's book about Saint Theresa of Lisieux and am knocked out by it complet.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 434] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers The Ascent of Mount Carmel and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and the "Book of Job" and the Dark Night of t.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 433] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers But in any case, one thing is clear (while it is impossible to grasp the seriousness of her sacrifice of heave.. 1941/10/08 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 434] Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling The Ascent of Mount Carmel and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and the "Book of Job" and the Dark Night of t.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435]   Mabinogion What is being talked about in the Mabinogion is more like Homer than Keats or Hugo, and therefore it is Romant.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] Frank Laurence Lucas Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal I read in F. L. Lucas' Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal a series of quotations illustrating the term "Ro.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] John Keats Eve of St. Agnes Keats takes the content of his imagination and builds a fairy palace and invites himself to a poor substitute .. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment Coleridge sometimes gets up to the heights of real myth,too. Keats, seldom. Coleridge, like a surrealist, desc.. 1941/10/10 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 435] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge sometimes gets up to the heights of real myth,too. Keats, seldom. Coleridge, like a surrealist, desc.. 1941/10/11 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 436-37] Frank Laurence Lucas Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal "I like Blake often, but I like Hardy better." This, which is not the best written short sentence in the Engl.. 1941/10/12 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 437-38] Ivor Armstrong Richards Coleridge on Imagination Whatever may be wrong with I. A. Richards' notions of Coleridge on Imagination, Lucas is far more wrong about .. 1941/11/01 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 448] Aldous Huxley Gray Eminence I have got Gray Eminence-which seems good so far. There, the big problem is that a man who convinced himself t.. 1941/11/09 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 476] Charles Baudelaire Fleurs du mal In all evil, there is something holy perverted. The dialectic between the good that underlies evil and the evi.. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 454-55] Aldous Huxley Ends and Means I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Etienne Gilson Spirit of Medieval Philosophy I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Evelyn Underhill Mysticism. Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] G.F. Lahey Gerard Manley Hopkins I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Jacques Maritain Art and Scholasticism I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I spent maybe the whole afternoon writing a letter to Aldous Huxley and when I was finished I thought "who am .. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 455] Leon Wieger Bouddhisme chinois I was reading about Hopkins' conversion when I dropped the book and rushed out of the house and went to see Fr.. 1941/11/27 [Jnl 1 ('39-'41) p. 456] Lewis Mumford Culture of Cities Or do I want to go to Gethsemani because it is a perfect society, even in the natural order? Is it because las.. 1942/11/21 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 166] Teresa of Avila Autobiography All these things I read in St. Augustine: the Commentary on the Psalms, the Book on the Sermons on the Mount, .. 1945/19/27 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 20] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello I read much Duns Scotus, who when it comes to psychology, at any rate, fills in certain big gaps that leave yo.. 1946/03/01 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 9] James Laughlin Some Natural Things Last couple of days before Ash Wednesday, just in time to write and thank you for Some Natural Things which I .. 1946/10/00 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 18] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello Father Timothy [Vander Vennet] remarked to us, in the course of a philosophy class, how much Reverend Father s.. 1946/12/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 31] Johannes Duns Scotus Opus Oxoniense I have been reading Duns Scotus's Oxoniense III, distinction 18, on Christ's will and His love. Scotus is real.. 1947/01/12 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 36] Edmond Martène Voyage Litteraire de Deux Benedictins de la Congragation de Saint Maure / co-author Ursin Durand I am fascinated by [Edmond] Martène and [Ursin] Durand's Voyage Litteraire de Deux Benedictins [Paris, 1717]. .. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 42]   Cloud of Unknowing Tomorrow I begin the retreat. Yesterday I read a couple of chapters of The Cloud of Unknowing. Every time I pi.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] Johannes Duns Scotus Opus Oxoniense Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] John of the Cross Living Flame of Love Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] Marie Michel Philipon Doctrine Spirituelle de Soeur Elisabeth de La Trinite Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 43] Pieter Meer de Walcheren, van der Paradis Blanc Since being in the monastery I have been hit that way by St. Theresa's Way of Perfection, chapter on distracti.. 1947/03/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 46] John of the Cross Living Flame of Love St. John of the Cross' Cautions are my food for this retreat and there couldn't be anything better as a prepar.. 1947/03/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 46] John of the Cross Precautions St. John of the Cross' Cautions are my food for this retreat and there couldn't be anything better as a prepar.. 1947/03/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 50] John of the Cross Precautions For the rest of my religious life I want with God's help to dispose myself for His work in me, to which I am n.. 1947/03/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 54] Godefroid Belorgey Pratique de l'oraison mentale. T1: Oraisons ordinaires. T2 Oraisons mystiques There Dom Godefroid [Belorgey]'s Chapters in the morning generally have something in them to keep souls direct.. 1947/03/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 53] John of the Cross Precautions The visitation is in full swing. If I had kept my resolution about following the Cautions of St. John of the C.. 1947/04/29 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 69] Un Religieux Chartreux La Vie Contemplative son rôle apostolique I read a little pamphlet from Parkminster on the contemplative, his place in the Church (not La Vie Contemplat.. 1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v.. 1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v.. 1947/05/00 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 170] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets The autobiography [The Seven Storey Mountain] comes along slow. Haven't seen page proofs. Bob Giroux must be v.. 1947/05/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 73] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo I read some St. Bernard [of Clairvaux] on the Mystical Marriage. The tenth chapter of De Diligendo Deo [On the.. 1947/05/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 73] Bernardus of Clairvaux Sermones in Cantica Canticorum I read some St. Bernard [of Clairvaux] on the Mystical Marriage. The tenth chapter of De Diligendo Deo [On the.. 1947/05/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 76]   Meditations Cartusiennes pour tous les jours de l'annee. Three Volumes From Parkminster came three volumes of Meditations Cartusiennes. I did not think I would find anything in them.. 1947/06/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 85] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos However, I see nothing for me to write that is not simply a song about His Love and about contemplation. Every.. 1947/06/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 86]   Meditations Cartusiennes pour tous les jours de l'annee. Three Volumes In the four weeks since Pentecost I have found much valuable help in those little books of Meditations Cartusi.. 1947/08/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 98] Casimir Gaillardin Les Trappistes, ou, L'ordre de Citeaux au XIX siècle: l'histoire de la Trappe depuis sa fondatione jusque'à nos jours Anselme Dimier's La Sombre Trappe [Paris, 1946] creates the impression it proposes to want to dispel: that the.. 1947/08/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 98] Anselm Dimier La Sombre Trappe. Les legendes et la verite Anselme Dimier's La Sombre Trappe [Paris, 1946] creates the impression it proposes to want to dispel: that the.. 1947/08/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 104] William of St. Thierry Expositio Altera in Cantica I thought for a moment, and with nostalgia, of the old days when I got so much consolation out of the Cisterci.. 1947/09/07 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 105] Guigo I Meditations I don't think as much of Guigo I's Meditations as I once thought I might. Very lapidary, but not on an interes.. 1947/09/07 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 105] Paul Claudel Connaisance de l'Est Paul Claudel's verse bores me but his poetic prose about the Orient is wonderful. I have never read anything a.. 1947/09/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 111] Bonaventura Itinerarium The Feast of his Stigmatization coincides for us with the transferred Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cros.. 1947/10/16 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 125] Patrice Tour du Pin, de la Dedicated Life and Poetry Laughlin sent Patrice de la Tour du Pin's Dedicated Life and Poetry [which appeared as part of La Somme de Poe.. 1947/10/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 127] Patrice Tour du Pin, de la Dedicated Life and Poetry I have tried again to read Patrice de la Tour du Pin and sometimes find him very antipathetic. All that stuff .. 1947/10/26 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 128]   Cloud of Unknowing The only thing that gave me any relief today was when I looked in The Cloud of Unknowing for a moment at the c.. 1947/11/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 130] Deodat Basly, de Deux grandes ecoles catholiques de B. Duns Scot et de S. Thomas The last two days or so I have been reading Deodat de Basly [Les deux grandes ecoles catholiques de B. Duns Sc.. 1947/11/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 130] Frederick William Faber Growth in Holiness The last two days or so I have been reading Deodat de Basly [Les deux grandes ecoles catholiques de B. Duns Sc.. 1947/11/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 131] Johannes Duns Scotus Opus Oxoniense For the first time I really saw into something of the import of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity in lines from .. 1947/11/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 140] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello The day before the retreat began, two volumes of the Wisques translation (French) of Ruysbroeck arrived [Oeuvr.. 1947/12/16 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 146] Johannes Duns Scotus Reportationes Parisiensis / o.f.m. Reading Duns Scotus' Reportationes III on the Incarnation... 1947/12/16 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 146] Robert Lowell Lord Weary's Castle Yesterday Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell came and it is terrific. Harcourt Brace sent it after I had beg.. 1947/12/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 148] Leon Bloy Woman Who Was Poor The Church at Bricquebec was remodeled by an architect, a converted Communist. And Dom Marie Joseph said he wo.. 1948/02/12 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 167] Jan Ruusbroec Oeuvres de Ruysbroeck l'admirable / Jan van Ruusbroec ; trad. du flamand par les Benedictins de Saint-Paul de Wisques par Ernest Hello But, on the other hand, I read Ruysbroeck with joy, all about immediate contact with God, "meeting" Him in th.. 1948/02/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 171]   Exordium Magnum Cisterciensae This week I don't think de Rance was as bad as people sometimes say. Reading the Exordium Magnum, I find those.. 1948/02/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 170] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Diligendo Deo The Lenten Book (De Diligendo Deo) is, from the point of view of my own interest and alertness to its value, t.. 1948/02/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 172] Jean Berthold Mahan Ordre cistercien et son gouvernement, des origines au milieu du XIIIe siecle (1098-1265) I looked at the new history by Jean Berthold Mahan [L'Ordre cistercien et son gouvernement, des origines au mi.. 1948/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 175] Marbodus Redonensis Opuscula Yesterday I discovered that there were marvelous poets in the 12th century. I never knew it except by vague he.. 1948/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 175] Vital Lehodey Saint Abandon Sunday night I got two hours' sleep and Monday I was staggering around in a fog. With trembling hands I took d.. 1948/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 176] William of St. Thierry Speculum Fidei Nos adoramus quod scimus. [We adore what we know.] I wonder if William of St. Thierry quotes that. He ought to.. 1948/03/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 183] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets After dinner I sat here in the sun and read T. S. Eliot's Four Quartet, or rather East Coker and part of The D.. 1948/03/25 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 191] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: meditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte One of the big graces of Holy Week came by surprise yesterday. External graces almost always do come that way,.. 1948/03/28 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 194] Wilhelm Schamoni Face of the Saints In the library I lookesd at that marvelous book The Faces of the Saints [by Wilhelm Schamoni, London, 1948], p.. 1948/04/11 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 198] John of the Cross Precautions I read over St. John of the Cross' Cautions, which were the things I had in mind to keep when I made solemn pr.. 1948/04/25 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 199] Marcel Aubert Architecture cistercienne en France The two volumes of Marcel Aubert on Cistercian architecture in France finally arrived. Fr. Anselme Dimier got .. 1948/05/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 205] Matthias Joseph Scheeben Mysteries of Christianity I looked into [Matthias Joseph] Scheeben's Mysteries of Christianity [St. Louis,1946] and found some good page.. 1948/05/17 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 206-06] Godefroid Belorgey Humilite Benedictine But providentially Dom Godefroid Belorgey's new book, L'Humilite Benedictine [Paris, 1948], came in at that mo.. 1948/05/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 206] Marcel Aubert Architecture cistercienne en France I am reading the Aubert book on Cistercian Architecture, and it is fine. I think of those monasteries. I am tr.. 1948/05/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 208] Giovanni Papini Letters of Pope Celestine VI Fr. Raymond lent me [Giovanni] Papini's new book, The Letters of Pope Celestine VI [New York, 1948], and altho.. 1948/05/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 209] Godefroid Belorgey Humilite Benedictine In Dom Godefroid's book on humility I find out a lot about the real life and spirit of our Order, the life tha.. 1948/06/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 210] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets I wouldn't mind being recognized as a poet if I really were a poet. But it gives me comfort to read poets who .. 1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5] Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if .. 1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5] Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if .. 1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5] James Joyce Ulysses I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if .. 1948/08/04 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 39] James Laughlin Poems : selections : a small book of poems / James Laughlin Yesterday Father Abbot gave me your package of books on St. John of the X from Paris and your small book of po.. 1948/08/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 227] John of the Cross Precautions Tomorrow we choose the one who is to lead us for a certain time to God, to make saints of us. I got time to th.. 1948/09/03 [Ltrs: CforT p. 6] Robert Graves and Alan Hodges Reader over Your Shoulder It has been quite humiliating for me to find out (from [Robert] Graves and [Alan] Hodge [authors of The Reader.. 1948/09/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 229] Robert Graves and Alan Hodges Reader over Your Shoulder One good thing. Evelyn Waugh sent me a fine book to help me to write better, The Reader over Your Shoulder by .. 1948/09/07 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 230] David Knowles o.s.b. Religious Orders in England In Dom David Knowles' new book (Religious Orders in England [volume I of 3, Cambridge, 1948]) I found a few fi.. 1948/09/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 233] Bonaventura Itinerarium Day and night I think about St. Francis and about poverty as I re-read the seventh chapter of St. Bonaventure'.. 1948/10/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 239] Gerald Ellard Christian Life and Worship This morning I got the idea that perhaps I ought to be reading something about the subdiaconate, since my ordi.. 1948/10/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 240] John of the Cross Obras de San Juan de la Cruz / edit. y anot. por P. Silverio de Santa Teresa Beautiful stuff in a Letter of St. John of the Cross to the Nuns of Beas (Carta V) [Letter 5, vol. 3]:Veremos.. 1948/11/03 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188] Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S. I Sing of a Maiden I would like to assure you that I was very glad to get that beautiful big book, I Sing of a Maiden & the only .. 1948/11/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188] Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S. Give Joan a Sword It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your last one, .. 1948/11/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188] Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S. I Sing of a Maiden It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your last one, .. 1948/11/22 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 44-45] Ezra Pound Pisan Cantos I agree about nog having enough form, but I can't figure out how I am going to acquire any: but thanks for the.. 1949/01/29 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 273]   Rituel Propre de l'Abaye de Cisteaux I was reading in the Rituel Propre de Cîteaux that at Cîteaux they read nothing but St. Bernard at the reading.. 1949/02/09 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 279] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes Into the middle of all this came [Antonin] Sertillanges' La Vie Intellectuelle [Paris, 1944] which might have .. 1949/02/10 [Ltrs: CforT p. 24] F.D. Joret o.p. Dominican Life But in any case, what amused me was that the Father who wrote the article asserted that "the degree of union w.. 1949/02/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 280] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes Now"”about La Vie Intellectuelle-it would be a nice feat to prove that it is not diametrically opposed to St. .. 1949/02/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 281] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes On the other hand there could be a way of being humble and following Sertillanges, and nobody can say whether .. 1949/02/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 283] Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges Vie Intellectuelle; son exprit, ses conditions ses methodes More pages in Sertillanges that made me laugh"”the ones about getting up in the middle of the night to scribbl.. 1949/02/24 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 305] F.D. Joret o.p. Dominican Life Talking about the active apostolate: the Thomist got after me for something I said. I felt it was rather flatt.. 1949/03/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 287] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Yesterday Seeds of Contemplation arrived and it is very handsome. The best job of printing that has ever been .. 1949/04/07 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 30] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: méditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Have a good Holy Week and Easter. Do you know that marvelous book, "le Mystère de Pascal" by Louis Bouyer? It .. 1949/04/14 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 302] Johannes Tauler Sermons de Tauler : traduction sur les plus anciens manuscrits allemands / par les RR. PP. Hugueny, Thery, O. P. et A. L. Corin There are also a lot of good things in [Johannes] Tauler whom I like very much-when he is explained by notes l.. 1949/05/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 306] David Knowles o.s.b. Religious Orders in England I remember also the fragments of information I have heard about Dom David Knowles who is a much subtler and mo.. 1949/05/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 192] William of St. Thierry Golden Epistle I am busy trying to learn how to say Mass. My health is all right, except that I have a vile cold at the momen.. 1949/05/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 314] John of the Cross Living Flame of Love I can't read anything but St. John of the Cross. I opened The Living Flame at the line Rompe la tela de este d.. 1949/07/09 [Ltrs: CforT p. 25] Jean-Baptiste Porion Sainte Trinite et la Vie Intereure Dom Porion sent me his delightful book on the Holy Trinity and the interior life, and on every page I found ec.. 1949/07/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 333] Jean-Baptiste Porion Sainte Trinite et la Vie Intereure Dom Porion sent me a little book he wrote anonymously, La Sainte Trinite et la Vie Interieure [Paris, 1948], a.. 1949/07/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 339-40] Johannes Tauler Sermons de Tauler : traduction sur les plus anciens manuscrits allemands / par les RR. PP. Hugueny, Thery, O. P. et A. L. Corin I have found many good things in Hugeny's Theological Introduction to his translation of Tauler [Sermons de Ta.. 1949/07/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 11] Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited The Month has been paying me for my effusions by sending me books. One of them was The Loved One. I was having.. 1949/07/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 11] Evelyn Waugh Loved One The Month has been paying me for my effusions by sending me books. One of them was The Loved One. I was having.. 1949/08/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 344] Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae The short Prologue of St. Thomas to his Summa Theologiae is a very beautiful paragraph containing a whole disc.. 1949/08/05 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 345-46] Thomas Aquinas Commentary on the Gospel of St. John I find an interesting passage in St. Thomas' commentary on St. John, Chapter I (Lectio XIV), the place where J.. 1949/08/11 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 353] Paul Philippe O.P. Très Sainte Vierge et le Sacerdoce To my great joy, Fr. Paul Philippe's book, La Très Sainte Vierge et le Sacerdoce [Paris, 1947] arrived the day.. 1949/08/19 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 357] L.C. Fillion Study of the Bible [Louis Claude] Fillion, a Scripture scholar whom I am appointed to read, encourages young priests to study Heb.. 1949/08/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 359] Aurelius Augustinus Exposition on the Book of Psalms And I was turning over in my mind some sentences from St. Augustine's commentary on the 118th psalm. They conc.. 1949/08/22 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 360] L.C. Fillion Study of the Bible My friend, the Abbe Fillion, has written a book that is in some ways strange. However, it is very good-especia.. 1949/08/26 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 362] L.C. Fillion Study of the Bible My pious Abbe Fillion suggests that, when we are stumped and cannot find out the meaning of a passage of Scrip.. 1949/09/13 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 367] John Chapman Spiritual Letters I find consoling lines here and there in Dom Chapman's Spiritual Letters [The Spiritual Letters of Dom John Ch.. 1949/11/19 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 62] Franz Kafka Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 / Collected and translated from German by Max Brod Thanks for the Rilke. I am still entranced with Kafka's diaries [Note: Kafka's Diaries: The Diaries of Franz K.. 1949/11/19 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 62] Kenneth Patchen Selected Poems Thanks for the Rilke. I am still entranced with Kafka's diaries [Note: Kafka's Diaries: The Diaries of Franz K.. 1949/11/25 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 373] Gregory of Nyssa De vita Moysis In the refectory we are reading Exodus and I have discovered St. Gregory of Nyssa's De Vita Moysis [Life of Mo.. 1949/12/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 374] Kenneth Patchen Dark Kingdom Kenneth Patchen's "For losing her love all would I profan" struck me with great force and after a moment I re.. 1949/12/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 375] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos There is supposed to be a special group coming to the vault after Benediction on Sundays and Feasts to talk ab.. 1949/12/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 377] Rainer Maria Rilke Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge I am abashed by the real solitude of Rilke which I admire, knowing, however, it is not for me because I am not.. 1949/12/17 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 380] John of the Cross Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos Walking back from the barns in the warm sun on the muddy road between the orchard and the vegetable garden wit.. 1949/12/20 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 380-81] Rainer Maria Rilke Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rilke's Notebooks have so much power in them that they make me wonder why no one writes like that in monasteri.. 1949/12/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 384] Aurelius Augustinus City of God St. Augustine, of Adam in Eden: vivebat fruens Deo, ex quo bono erat bonus [He lived in the joy of God, and by.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390]   Cloud of Unknowing I like Kenneth Patchen's Dark Kingdom, but it does not do anything beyond interesting the surface of my mind. .. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Dom Alexis Presse Bela Just: Les Illumines I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Evelyn Waugh Loved One I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Graham Greene Heart of the Matter I like the Augustinian themes in [Brice] Parain's Mort de Jean Madec [Paris, 1945] yet I would not know whethe.. 1949/12/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 390] Kenneth Patchen Dark Kingdom I like Kenneth Patchen's Dark Kingdom, but it does not do anything beyond interesting the surface of my mind. .. 1949/12/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 391] Henri Watson Fowler Dictionary of Modern English Usage Evelyn Waugh got Burns, of Hollis and Carter, to send me a copy of Ward Fowler's Modern English Usage as an in.. 1950/00/00 [Ltrs: SofC p. 19] John of the Cross Precautions I had been hoping to meditate a little on the Cautions of St. John of the Cross. I have at least glanced throu.. 1950/01/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 392] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec There is a beautiful passage on manual labor in La Mort de Jean Madec. It tells me one reason why I like the b.. 1950/01/09 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 396-97] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec Reading the sixth chapter of La Mort de Jean Madec-where Blaise is summoned before the conseil de discipline [.. 1950/01/12 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 399] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec La Mort de Jean Madec is a magnificent tract against angelism. It is a tract on transcendence and immanence. I.. 1950/01/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 401] Bernardus of Clairvaux Sermones de Diversis St. Bernard's Sermon 110, De Diversis, which I stumbled on just now by accident when I set out to look for the.. 1950/01/21 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 401] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec St. Bernard's Sermon 110, De Diversis, which I stumbled on just now by accident when I set out to look for the.. 1950/01/27 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 403] Bernardus of Clairvaux Epistolae Opera Omnia The more I read St. Bernard and the Cistercian Fathers, the more I like them. There was a time when I was temp.. 1950/01/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 15] Henri Watson Fowler Dictionary of Modern English Usage It is some time since I have given an account of myself. [Tom] Burns sent a copy of Fowler and I am very grate.. 1950/01/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404]   Didachè "Let grace come and let the world pass away. Hosanna to the Son of David." These words are from the Didache. .. 1950/01/30 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404] Brice Parain Mort de Jean Madec The Greeks say that interior silence is not perfect unless it is centered upon the Name of Jesus. For they do .. 1950/01/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404-05] Bernardus of Clairvaux Sermones de Diversis Hesychasm-is that the English word for it?-has been my latest discovery. I came across it in the Etudes Carmel.. 1950/01/31 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 404-05] John Cassian Joannis Cassiani Opera omnia cum amplissimis commentariis Alardi Gazæi in hoc parisiensi editione, contra quam in lipsiensi, textui continenter ad majorem commoditatem lectoris subjacentibus Hesychasm-is that the English word for it?-has been my latest discovery. I came across it in the Etudes Carmel.. 1950/02/23 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 411] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets I came out of choir yesterday morning after the distribution of the ashes and put on our shoes and socks in th.. 1950/02/25 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 68] Arthur Rimbaud Season in Hell Bob promised me Eliot's Cocktail Party and I am eager to see it. The Novice Master would not let Season in Hel.. 1950/03/01 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 413]   Song of Roland So [Book of] Josue is my favorite epic. I like it better than The Iliad, infinitely better than Virgil or the .. 1950/03/01 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 413] Homer Iliad / Translated by Robert Fitzgerald So [Book of] Josue is my favorite epic. I like it better than The Iliad, infinitely better than Virgil or the .. 1950/04/08 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 429] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: meditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Louis Bouyer has a marvelous chapter on the connection between the Resurrection and the founding of the Church.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 20] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La theologie mystique de Saint Bernard That is why I feel that your works are so tremendously helpful, dear Father. Your St. Bernard Mystique is alto.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 7] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La théologie mystique de Saint Bernard Your St. Bernard mystique is altogether admirable because, while being simple and fluent, it communicates to t.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 7] Jean Leclercq St. Bernard mystique Your St. Bernard mystique is altogether admirable because, while being simple and fluent, it communicates to t.. 1950/04/22 [Ltrs: SofC p. 20] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. St. Bernard mystique That is why I feel that your works are so tremendously helpful, dear Father. Your St. Bernard Mystique is alto.. 1950/05/20 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 71]   Bhagavad Gita Somebody sent me the Bhagavad-Gita and I am very interested in it. I think the trouble with Hinduism is not in.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 24] Jean Danielou Platonisme et theologie mystique. Essay sur la doctrine spirituelle de Saint Gregoire de Nysse I wish I could give you some information on St. Bernard in his relation to the Greek Fathers. I have none of m.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 25] Jean Danielou Signe du temple ou De la presence de Dieu I am extremely eager to get Fr. Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not yet been able to do so. I feel .. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 22] Jean Daniélou Platonisme et théologie mystique. Essay sur la doctrine spirituelle de Saint Grégoire de Nysse I wish I could give you some information on St. Bernard in his relation to the Greek Fathers. I have non of my.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 24] Jean Daniélou Signe du temple ou De la présence de Dieu I am extremely eager to get Fr. [Louis] Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not been able to do so. I l.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 23] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. St. Bernard mystique Your remarks on St. Bernard's ideas of Scripture are extremely important to me. I have been meditating on your.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 25] Louis Bouyer Vie de saint Antoine par saint Athanase I am extremely eager to get Fr. Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not yet been able to do so. I feel .. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 24] Louis Bouyer Vie de saint Antoine par saint Athanase I am extremely eager to get Fr. [Louis] Bouyer's new book on monasticism, but have not been able to do so. I l.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: SofC p. 23] Vladimir Lossky Essay de la theologie mystique de l'Eglise d'Orient Your remarks on St. Bernard's ideas of Scripture are extremely important to me. I have been meditating on your.. 1950/10/09 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 19] Vladimir Lossky Essay de la théologie mystique de l'eglise d'Orient Your remarks on St. Bernard's ideas of Scripture are extremely important to me... I think he is acting as a th.. 1950/10/10 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 435] Pierre Emmanuel Qui est cet homme? There are times when ten pages of some book fall under your eye just at the moment when your very life, it see.. 1950/11/22 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 79] Karl Stern Pillar of Fire They have been keeping me here in the hospital for some time, mainly to make me rest.... Father Abbot dropped .. 1950/12/03 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 444] John of the Cross Precautions I am haunted by the Cautelas of St. John of the Cross. Especially the second, against the flesh, against solic.. 1950/12/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 445] Henry David Thoreau Walden or Life in the Woods After those beautiful pages on morning and on being awake, Thoreau writes in his Walden: "I went to the woods .. 1950/12/08 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 446] Henry David Thoreau Walden or Life in the Woods Compare the basic asceticism in Walden with that of St. John of the Crossagreement on the fundamental idea-not.. 1950/12/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 18] Evelyn Waugh Helena This letter has two purposes: to thank you for Helena and to wish you a holy Christmas"”and even a merry one, .. 1951/03/04 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 452] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers Shall I re-read the bits in The Ascent of Mount Carmel about the memory? They seem to do me so much good-alway.. 1951/04/06 [Jnl 2 ('41-'52) p. 454] Jean Cayrol Poèmes de la nuit et du brouillard camps. When first arrested, they dreamt they had not been arrested but had escaped. Then, resigned to their ar.. 1952/01/02 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 88] Grenville Clarc Plan for Peace I hope you will be saying some special prayers for a man named Grenville Clark up in New Hampshire. He has wri.. 1952/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 19] Charles Journet Dark Knowledge of God / translated from the French by James F. Anderswon About apophatic"”although it is not in the OED it does crop up in English, though in translations of French bo.. 1952/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 18-19] Ronald Knox Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion with Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries Many thanks for your very kind letter and for [Ronald Knox's] Enthusiasm . I entirely agree with your comment .. 1952/08/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 10] Louis Bouyer Bible et l'Evangile. Le sens de l'Ecriture: du Dieu qui parle au Dieu faite homme Bouyer's book Bible et evangile is brilliant but makes me nervous. Marmion never made anybody nervous but he d.. 1953/01/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 29] Max Picard World of Silence Fine ideas in Picard's World of Silence. (A train of the old time sings in my present silence, at St. Anne's, .. 1953/02/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 36] Marie-Eugène de l'Enfant Jesus, O.C.D. Je suis fille d'eglise Yesterday, began our Lenten book, Je suis fille d'eglise [I Am a Daughter of the Church, by P. Marie-Eugène, O.. 1953/04/07 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 24] Mark Van Doren Spring Birth and Other Poems It was wonderful to get the letter and the book [Spring Birth and Other Poems], which both arrived long enough.. 1953/04/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 151] Jacques Maritain Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry Someone sent me Maritain's new book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, and it seems to be very fine... 1953/04/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 150] T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro.. 1953/04/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 150] T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro.. 1953/05/10 [Ltrs: SofC p. 57] Joseph Creusen Religious Men and Women in the Code The main thing Dom Louis did was to make clear the fact that the Prior takes care of all the material needs of.. 1953/05/18 [Ltrs: SofC p. 59] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. St. Bernard mystique I am not doing any work on a book on St. Bernard and there has been no announcement of any such book; hence I .. 1953/05/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 213] Max Picard Flight from God Have you read Max Picard? I like his stuff very much and am currently in the Flight from God which is very per.. 1953/06/20 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 155] Jean Rounault Nightmare / pseudonym of Rainer Biemel Then also the book Nightmare finally got to me through the iron curtain and I have read bitds of it. Rounault,.. 1953/08/21 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 36] Jean Leclercq Dottrina del Beato Paolo Giustiniani Above all I want to thank you for your Doctrina del B.P. Giustiniani. I find it most useful and am glad tot ha.. 1953/10/19 [Ltrs: SofC p. 67] Lucille Hasley Reproachfully Yours When he came back from the General Chapter, our Reverend Father Dom James spoke to me about the affair of that.. 1953/11/05 [Ltrs: Leclercq p. 42] Ildefonso Schuster Vie monastique dans la pensée de Saint Bernard I have been reading with great satisfaction Cardinal Schuster's little volume. It has a very fine tone, and it.. 1953/11/05 [Ltrs: SofC p. 70] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Alone with God It was a satisfaction to me when Father Abbot gave me permission to write the preface for your volume on Paul .. 1954/01/14 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 170] Bernardus of Clairvaux De Consideratione I have been over these proofs [of Last of the Fathers]... I made two significant and rather long additions - t.. 1954/06/05 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 179] Karen Horney Neurosis and human growth : the struggle toward selfrealization I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela.. 1954/06/05 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 179] Karl Stern third revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela.. 1954/10/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 308-09] Erich Fromm Man for himself : an inquiry into the psychology of ethics Some time ago when I was reading your Psychoanalysis and Religion I thought I would write you a letter. Now th.. 1954/10/02 [Ltrs: HGL p. 308-09] Erich Fromm Psychoanalysis and religion Some time ago when I was reading your Psychoanalysis and Religion I thought I would write you a letter. Now th.. 1954/10/11 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 183] Charles Monroe Coffin Major Poets: English and American. Many thanks for the books - Judson, Mumford and Coffin. I am already greatly enjoying the anthology. Suddenly .. 1954/10/16 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 26] Mark Van Doren Selected Poems At last it is raining and I not only have the time to write a letter but am more or less in a mood for one. So.. 1954/11/04 [Ltrs: SofC p. 80] Cuthbert Butler o.s.b. Benedictine Monachism: Studies in Benedictine Life and Rule A few weeks ago, by some miracle, we actually started reading Dom Cuthbert Butler's Benedictine Monachism in t.. 1954/11/16 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 186] Karl Stern third revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion Many thanks for the THIRD REVOLUTION. I am half-way through it and I will comment and write to Sern when I hav.. 1954/12/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 218] Rudyard Kipling Just-So Stories However, there is one thing which I treasure and which you also will like. It is an old magazine containing an.. 1955/08/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 220] Evelyn Waugh Officers and Gentlemen Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its w.. 1955/08/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 220] Randell Jarrell Pictures from an Institution Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its w.. 1955/08/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 112] Randell Jarrell Pictures from an Institution You told me Perspectives is closing down. I thought the numbers I saw were very good. Sometimes it occurs to m.. 1955/09/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 314] Erich Fromm Forgotten Language Your book The Forgotten Language, which I read last May or June, also interested me very much... 1955/09/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 313] Erich Fromm Sane Society I am about halfway through The Sane Society which I received some time ago. I am reading it with the greatest .. 1955/09/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 314] Henri Lubac, De Catholicism Most of the Fathers of the Church looked at the Incarnation in that light, and Duns Scotus, for instance, is a.. 1955/10/24 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 19] Denis Grivot Autun How did you like Zodiaque and the book on Autun? The monks who did those books are thinking of publishing some.. 1955/11/26 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 25] Bruno Snell Discovery of the mind: in Greek philosophy and literature The Snell book is here and I have begun it. I can see its great importance, and therefore i ask you to bear wi.. 1955/12/17 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 27] Adolph Konrad Fiedler Vom Wesen der Kunst And now, thank you so much for the Fiedler. It is intensely interesting and thougth provoking. As I had suspec.. 1956/02/05 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 29] Bernard Craplet Auvergne Roman The Benedictines, whose magazines I gave you, have come out with a wonderful volume on Romanesque Art in Auver.. 1956/02/05 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 29] Bruno Snell Discovery of the mind: in Greek philosophy and literature I finally have a chance to write you and tell you that I am sending the Snell book back - long after I had pro.. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Hilda Graef Scholar and the Cross: The Life and Work of Edith Stein Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Louis Bouyer Mystère Pascal: meditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Pie Raymond Regamey Cross and the Christian / Translated from the French by Angeline Bouchard Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/03/03 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 130] Pie Raymond Regamey Poverty: An Essential Element in the Christian Life / Translated from the French by Rosemary Sheed Shall I add to the immense list of books you ought to read? The February issue [of La Vie Spirituelle] has an .. 1956/05/02 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 134] Graham Greene Quiet American First of all, here are a couple of poems "¦ Matthew Scott is sending the long one to Graham Greene [called "Th.. 1956/05/07 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 114]   Dhammapada For al long time I have been meaning to write about several things. For one, I at last sent off the Dhammappad.. 1956/05/07 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 115] Graham Greene Quiet American I sent Naomi a couple more poems, in fact three of four more. Where did I leave off with the stuff you have? D.. 1956/06/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 123] Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Lax sent me Waiting for Godot which is very funny and I don't see why people are running up and down asking th.. 1956/07/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 47] Stephen Spender Collected Poems Spender's Collected Poems-a most satisfying book. He has done a better job of versifying than Auden. No man sh.. 1956/07/19 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 32] Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Manual of Zen Buddhism / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Today I am mailing ack to the Kentucky university library the most interesting "Manual of Zen" by Suzuki. I am.. 1956/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 59] Diadochos of Photike Capita centum de perfectione spirituali Diadochos-"the abyss of faith boils if you examine it, but if you look upon it with simplicity, it becomes onc.. 1956/08/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 62] Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie FROM [VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH] SOLOVIEV "The moral limit to the egoism of a given person is not the egoism of oth.. 1956/08/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 63] Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie Soloviev-The strength of a falsehood insists on the importance of a corresponding truth. "The importance of a .. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 65] Georges Bernanos Last Essays of Georges Bernanos On top of this, [Georges] Bernanos' Last Essays of which at least the last is fine (I have not touched any of .. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 64] Julien Hartridge Green Journals Julien Green's Journal has finally come to absorb me altogether in the sleepy time after dinner when I have to.. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 65] Julien Hartridge Green Journals To be completely dependent on a country, on a city"¦for a moment I was annoyed at Green and started finding fa.. 1956/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 64] Origenes Treatise on Prayer. The Treatise on Prayer is the first thing of Origen's that I have really liked except perhaps the Homilies on .. 1956/08/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 66] Emmanuel Mounier Personalism The toughness and integrity of Emmanuel Mounier [Note 7: Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950) was a French philosopher.. 1956/08/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 68-69] Emmanuel Mounier Personalism Mounier says (in showing that the idea of person must be defined by the power to communicate - and showing how.. 1956/08/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 70-71] Emmanuel Mounier Personalism It is easy to say of every new idea one meets-"It is all in St. Bernard." It is very doubtful, for instance, .. 1956/09/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 77] Helen Waddell Wandering Scholars The Cistercians of the 12th. century were forbidden to write not only rhyming verse, as Helen Waddell records,.. 1957/00/00 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 84] Hans Urs von Balthasar Presence et pensee. Essay sur la philosophie religieuse de Gregoire de Nysse "Etrefidèle à la Tradition, ce n'est donc pas repeter et transmettre litteralement des theses de philosophie o.. 1957/04/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 86] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Yet one of Berdyaev's greatest mistakes is to reject the Gospel as incomplete and patristic theology as steril.. 1957/04/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 87] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Berdyaev is demanding-as Blake demanded-that man should truly find his liberty in Christ. He is aware that thi.. 1957/05/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 88] Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon "Once, when the great ‘we' still existed, we understood them as one had understood them before. We had penet.. 1957/05/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 88] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Berdyaev, who is always so ready to offend pious ears with statements that are, as they stand, even heretical,.. 1957/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 89] Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' ""¦a clan in radical chains, one of the classes of bourgeois society which does not belong to bourgeois societ.. 1957/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 90] Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' Marx is, in some strange way, an heir of Ezechiel and Jeremias. Not that he is a conscious and willing instrum.. 1957/05/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 92-93] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet Long quote from Berdyaev. Le sens de la tradition, 216-17 [W.E.: must probably be Le sens de la creation].. 1957/05/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 94] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev sens de la creation : un essai de justification de l'homme / Nicolas Berdiaev ; trad. du russe par Lucienne Julien Cain ; pref. de Stanislas Fumet In Theophane Zatvornik, a Russian bishop of the 19th. century, the asceticism of the fathers was revived, says.. 1957/05/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 95] Mikhail Zoshchenko Russia Laughs Good writing and good art are coming to mean much in the salvation of Russia. It is sad that the cultural cont.. 1957/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 101] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Du Verbe incarne : (Agnus Dei) / par Serge Boulgakof ; trad. du russe par Constantin Andronikof Bulgakov's explanation of his sophianology (Du verbe incarne, p. 16) seems to me clear and satisfactory. The d.. 1957/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 101] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu Very important for the understanding of Bulgakov-the idea that the Divine Nature constitutes for the Divine Pe.. 1957/07/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 102] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu "La Sophia est le plerôme, le monde de Dieu existant en Dieu et pour Dieu, eternel et incree, où Dieu vit en .. 1957/08/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 104-05] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu "La Sophie est La Sagesse de Dieu, elle est la gloire de Dieu, est l'humanite en Dieu, elle est la Theanthropi.. 1957/08/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 107] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu I think this morning I found the key to Bulgakov's Sophianism. His idea is that the Divine Sophia, play, wisdo.. 1957/08/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 108] Julien Hartridge Green Journals Finally got the rest of Green's Journals. Their climate is wonderful. I am really at home in it-he is an hones.. 1957/08/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 110-11] Ezra Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley The best of Pound is in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley... Sometimes as much like Ogden Nash as he is like Auden. Pound .. 1957/08/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 109] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Sagesse de Dieu Several quotes from Boulgakov's La Sagesse de Dieu, also on the next pages.. 1957/08/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 112] Publius Ovidius Naso Metamorphoses Frankly, Ovid had terrible taste. Yet in the Metamorphoses there are some wonderful things mixed up with ponde.. 1957/09/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 115] Julien Hartridge Green Journals "La religion est mal comprise. Elle rend stupides ceux qui se veulent pieux afin le pouvoir s'admirer dans cet.. 1957/09/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 116] Ludwig Bemelmans Donkey inside No easy generalizations about Job and Zen. Job is a big koan. So is everything else.Best book yet about Ecuad.. 1957/09/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 116] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers Went to Terrell Dickey about layouts for a postulant's pamphlet... He kept kidding me about wanting a modern l.. 1957/09/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 117] Dom Alexis Presse A l'ecole de St. Benoît Dom Alexis Presse-"A l'ecole de St. Benoît" ["In the School of St. Benedict"] has some very nice things-a go.. 1957/09/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 118] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers A Series of sentence fragments from John of the Cross's The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book I, chapter 13, 4-6... 1957/09/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 119] Saint John of the Cross complete works of Saint John of the Cross, doctor of the church / Saint John of the Cross ; transl. from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, and ed. by E. Allison Peers And this is what happens to people with a priori notions of what pleases God or "ought" to please Him. (Eatin.. 1957/09/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 120-21] Saint-John Perse Excile: and other Poems I wonder if it is a sin against poverty to read the poems of St. John Perse. They are magnificent. Immensely r.. 1957/09/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 121-22] Saint-John Perse Excile: and other Poems Tremendous religious power and purity of St. John Perse's Rain. Four lines like the prophetic books of Blake, .. 1957/10/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 124-25] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "Whoever seeks Christ without the Church, putting his trust in his own insight and what goes by the name of cr.. 1957/10/12 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 229] Karl Adam Christ of Faith Reading"”I try to do some. A fair amount here and there. I love Karl Adams' new book, The Christ of Faith. And.. 1957/10/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 125] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "The real root of every heresy is to be found not in the sphere of revelation but in the pagan philosophies.".. 1957/10/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 126] Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ Mirum est quod homo potest umquam perfecte in hac vita laetari, qui suum exilium et tam multa pericula animae .. 1957/10/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 126-27] Tuesday Lobsang Rampa Third Eye. The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama A thrilling and terrifying and fascinating book-The Third Eye by a Tibetan lama who calls himself Rimpoche Ram.. 1957/10/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 128] Arthur Koestler Thieves in the Night How can we sing the psalms, or understand them, if we are not Jews? Psallite sapienter [Sing praises with a ps.. 1957/10/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 130] Georges Bernanos Diary of a Country Priest One reason why it is so hard to read Bernanos' The Diary of a Country Priest is breaking this ghetto wall. Don.. 1957/10/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 129] James Joyce Letters of James Joyce "Ten years of my life have been consumed in correspondence and litigation about my book Dubliners. It was reje.. 1957/10/30 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 131] Arthur Koestler Thieves in the Night "The ‘People' are regarded through the Socialist Bureaucracy's eyes as a target for propaganda, not as a liv.. 1957/10/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 131] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "The man who does not in his heart protest against obvious baseness and does not passionately try to suppress .. 1957/10/5 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 128-29] Arthur Koestler Thieves in the Night The ending of Thieves in the Night is something of an anticlimax. A very useful book for monks who can read su.. 1957/11/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 133] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism Very satisfied with Karl Adam's Scotist solution of the problem raised by Christ's statement that not even the.. 1957/11/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 134] Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism "The history of philosophy is the history of human inquiry and human error, not the history of Truth. Truth ha.. 1957/11/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 135] James Joyce Letters of James Joyce Joyce's Letters (sent them back to Louisville today)-a very fine book. Especially enjoyed his letters to his f.. 1957/11/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 135] Jacques Guillet Thèmes bibliques. Etudes sur l'expression et le developement de la revelation Necessity of the Bible. More and more of it. A book like Gillet's Thèmes bibliques fantastically rich and usef.. 1957/11/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 141] Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon (From Darkness at Noon) "The Party denied the free will of the individual - and at the same time exacted his w.. 1957/11/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 140] Arthur Koestler Invisable Writing "Their mentality (of party intellectuals in 1930s) was a caricature of the revolutionary spirit"¦the seeds of .. 1957/11/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 140] Bertolt Brecht Measures Taken / Translated from German Die Massnahme Quote from Bert Brecht Punitive Measure: "He who fights for communism must be able to fight and to renounce fi.. 1957/12/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 146] Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, .. 1957/12/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 146-47] Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions Here, however, is a paragraph which I can and ought to make my own: "My passionate sense of social justice and.. 1957/12/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 148] Georges Bernanos Dialogue des carmelites Bob also sent Bernanos' Dialogue des carmelites one of the first things I read after coming over to the noviti.. 1958/01/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 155] Miguel Covarrubias Indian Art of Mexico and Central America I have [Miguel] Covarrubias' new book [Indian Art of Mexico and Central America] from the Louisville library. .. 1958/02/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 165] Ciro Alegria Mundo es ancho y ajeno Reading Ciro Alegria's "El mundo es ancho y ajeno," walking up and down the stonepath in the cold. It is a be.. 1958/02/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 167] Adolfo Bioy Casares Plan d'evasión Curious novel of Bioy Casaris, Plan d'evasion, about a governor of Devil's Island experimenting with certain p.. 1958/02/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 169] Adolfo Bioy Casares Plan d'evasión Back to Bioy Casaris' Plan d'evasion-as a symbol and a symptom. It is about French people. The death rattle of.. 1958/03/06 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 132] Adolfo Bioy Casares Plan d'evasión What I have been thinking about first of all is [Adolfo] Bioy [Casares]'s novel - Plan de Evasion. It is a goo.. 1958/03/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 179] Gabriel Marcel Homo viator My day of recollection. Went to confession to Fr. John of the Cross in the vault, as usual. Had to wait a litt.. 1958/03/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 182-83] Edward Steichen family of man : the greatest photographic exhibition of all time : 503 pictures from 68 countries / created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art Marvellous books for a few pennies-including The Family of Man for 50 cents. All those fabulous pictures. And .. 1958/03/27 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 44] Piero Bargellini Unquiet Conscience / Translated from Latin by Thomas Merton I enjoyed the Italian piece [note 34: The Unquiet Conscience by Piero Bargellini, later translated by Thomas M.. 1958/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 188] Jean Leclercq o.s.b. Amour des lettres et le desier de Dieu. Initiation aux auteurs monastiques du moyen age I had been reading Dom Leclercq's new book L'Amour des lettres et le Desir de Dieu which is very fine, and I s.. 1958/04/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 192-93] Martin Buber I and Thou Buber's I and Thou, in an execrable translation, very difficult to follow at first. An important book, in whic.. 1958/04/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 193] Martin Buber I and Thou "How foolish and hopeless would be the man who turned aside from the course of his life in order to seek God; .. 1958/04/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 195] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Russian Idea Charmed and fascinated by everything Berdyaev says in "The Russian Idea" until suddenly I am brought up with .. 1958/04/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 197-98] John Collier Indians of the Americas I am deeply moved by John Collier's book on The Indians of the Americas.... Until the beginning of the century.. 1958/04/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 195-96] Martin Buber I and Thou Fine climax to Buber's I and Thou. "Meeting with God does not come to man in order that he may concern himself.. 1958/05/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 200] Pablo Antonio Cuadra Jaguar y la luna : poemas Pablo Antonio Cuadra arrived with his wife last evening and left this afternoon. Read me some very fine poems .. 1958/05/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 203] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe Above all, this year has marked my discovery of Pasternak. First, in the copy of Encounter which came by chanc.. 1958/05/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 204] Boris Pasternak Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings Finished Pasternak's Safe Conduct and felt as if I must at once begin to read it again. A magnificent book, on.. 1958/05/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 204] Hannah Arendt Origins of Totalitarianism The terrible insights of Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. Wrote notes here under the pine trees in .. 1958/05/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 204-05] Nicolas Berdyaev Slavery and Freedom An admirable book from the Louisville library. Berdyaev's Slavery and Freedom. I think it is useful to know wh.. 1958/06/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 205-06] Nicolas Berdyaev Slavery and Freedom "It need to be said that politics are always based on lies"¦(we ought to) demand the reduction of politics and.. 1958/06/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 208] Albert Camus chute, recit Camus' La chute [The Fall]. I admit is too long... 1958/07/04 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 51] John Gunther Inside Russia Today I sent back the big Kulski book yesterday and one other. I will be sending the Current History volume as soon .. 1958/07/18 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 52] Albert Camus chute, recit By now everything of the U of K. Library that I had borrowed is on its way back. Unless the unbound an unmarke.. 1958/08/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 211] Louis Bouyer Newman: His Life and Spirituality [Louis] Bouyer's book on Newman, in the refectory, is very good - especially interested in the parts about Oxf.. 1958/08/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 210] Pie Raymond Regamey O.P. Non-Violence et conscience chretienne Doing violence to myself to read Regamey's book on non-violence because I need it. A lot of it is arid and plo.. 1958/08/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 214] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Possessed / by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; transl. from the Russian by Constance Garnett ; with a foreww by Avrahm Yarmolinsky and a transl. of the hitherto-suppressed chapter "At Tihon's" Yesterday good day of recollection in the woods. Read the part of The Possessed about the mad Saint Symeon and.. 1958/08/22 [Ltrs: CforT p. 87] Boris Pasternak Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings I have not yet had the pleasure of reading your recent autobiography although I am familiar with the earlier o.. 1958/09/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 231] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe Have you heard of the new book of the Russian poet Pasternak? Dr. Zhivago. It is a tremendous thing and a lot .. 1958/09/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 231] Louis Bouyer Newman: His Life and Spirituality In the refectory they are reading Newman's life by Louis Bouyer, a splendid book "¦ I think it is the wisest a.. 1958/09/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 216] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe For the last 5 days or so-reading Dr. Zhivago which finally came. Deeply moved by it. Not being in the habit o.. 1958/09/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 218] Charles Freer Andrews Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Works Yesterday in Louisville... After that, had a good day in the library. Some C. F. Andrews on Gandhi (the concep.. 1958/09/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 218] Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or Yesterday in Louisville... After that, had a good day in the library. Some C. F. Andrews on Gandhi (the concep.. 1958/10/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 221] Origenes Opera Omnia The charm of Origen-entranced by his commentary on Numbers with its inexhaustible fertility of ideas (which on.. 1958/10/05 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 221-22] Thomas Verner Moore Life of Man with God Read a little of Dom T. Verner Moore's The Life of Man with God. It has some good things in it but the whole a.. 1958/10/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 223] Cesar Vallejo Poesías completas (1918-1938) / Cesar Vallejo ; recop. y pról. de Cesar Miro Reading Vallejo. Oye a tu masa a terrific poem which I will translate... 1958/10/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 223] Mark Van Doren Autobiography of Mark Van Doren Then on Friday Mark Van Doren's autobiography came and I have begun it, getting with him as far now as the arm.. 1958/10/13 [Ltrs: CforT p. 180] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Fr. Lawrence [Ernesto Cardenal] has already told me a little about the history (behind the poem). It is a magn.. 1958/10/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 224] Louis Bouyer Trône de la sagesse Finishing up a very good two day retreat. Spent it all under the five or six pine trees near St. Teresa's fiel.. 1958/10/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 134-35] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Wrigings which came in today. I was not trying to rush .. 1958/10/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 134] Boris Pasternak Selected Writings Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Wrigings which came in today. I was not trying to rush .. 1958/10/16 [Ltrs: Laughlin p. 135] Mark Van Doren Autobiography of Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren sent his autobiography and I have been enjoying it: it is full of good things and all about eve.. 1958/10/23 [Ltrs: CforT p. 89] Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago Since my first letter to you I have obtained and read the book [Dr. Zhivago] published by Pantheon, and it has.. 1958/10/23 [Ltrs: CforT p. 90] Vladimir Sergeyewich Solovyov Meaning of Love Am I right in surmising that the ideas in this book run closely parallel to those in [Vladimir] Soloviev's Mea.. 1958/10/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 226] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Wisdom of God: a Brief Summery of Sophiology From the Library of Congress I got Bulgakov's Wisdom of God which is tremendous, particularly his last chapter.. 1958/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 230] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind Reading Czeslaw Milosz The Captive Mind-a really interesting book. When you read something worthwhile in these.. 1958/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 229] Jean Mabillon o.s.b. Traite des etudes monastiques Reading Mabillon's wise and delightful book on monastic studies. Among other things-this beautiful quotation f.. 1958/11/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 230] Josef Pieper Happiness and Contemplation "The whole of political life seems to be ordered with a view of attaining the happiness of contemplation. For .. 1958/12/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 54] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind Having read your remarkable book The Captive Mind I find it necessary to write to you, as without your help I .. 1958/12/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 235] Hans Urs von Balthasar Dieu et l'homme d'aujourd'hui Hans Urs Von Balthasar. "Dieu et l'homme d'aujourd'hui" [God and Man Today].. 1958/12/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 237] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Wisdom of God: a Brief Summery of Sophiology "Christian humanism, which preserves the development of all the creative capacities of man, may be understood .. 1958/12/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 93] Boris Pasternak I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography Kurt W. [Wolff] has sent me the Essai autobiographique [written as the introduction to A Sketch for an Autobio.. 1958/12/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 240] Paul Brunton Hermit in the Himalayas / pen name of Raphael Hurst Today began reading what seems to be a remarkable though poorly written book-Hermit in the Himalayas by Brinto.. 1958/12/30 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 244] Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Significant that on the 28th. in the morning I read Oedipus at Colonus and was deeply moved by it... 1959/01/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 244-45] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe In the morning chapter Rev. Father, because of certain events and circumstances, came out strongly against the.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Edmund Wilson American Earthquake. A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Richard Bewe Gregg Power of Non-violence I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Romano Guardini Religiöse Gestalten in Dostojewskijs Werk: Studien über den Glauben I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/11 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 246] Søren Kierkegaard Works of love / by Søren Kierkegaard ; transl. from the Danish by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson ; with an introd. by Douglas V. Steere I really think that in almost everything I read I find new food for the spiritual life, new thoughts, new disc.. 1959/01/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 248] Romano Guardini Religiöse Gestalten in Dostojewskijs Werk: Studien über den Glauben Moved by Guardini's wonderful book on Dostoevsky... 1959/01/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 253-54] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Solitude and Society From Berdyaev's "Solitude and Society": "Man may feel himself infinitely more alone in the midst of his corel.. 1959/02/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 259] Søren Kierkegaard Works of love / by Søren Kierkegaard ; transl. from the Danish by David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson ; with an introd. by Douglas V. Steere Kierkegaard's marvelous book on the Works of Love. With pages of careful and passionate thought he returns aga.. 1959/02/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 263] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Orthodox Church Tradition. "God has given us a thought of our own and our personal work cannot be done in the past. In other w.. 1959/02/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 264] Czeslaw Milosz Captive Mind Fine letter from Czeslaw Milosz in Paris. I had written about The Captive Mind. He replied at length about Alp.. 1959/02/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 56-57] Paul Claudel Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher There is something much too mental and abstract, something too parochial about a great deal of Catholic though.. 1959/03/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 266]   I ching : or book of changes / the Richard Wilhelm transl. ; rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes ; foreword by C.G. Jung A most significant event. After much thought, prayer, and debate, consulted the I Ching as, I think a valid ex.. 1959/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 271] Carl Gustav Jung Undiscovered Self Read some Origen on Josue, and Soloviev (Lectures on God Manhood)-some material on Mount Athos-Allport on prej.. 1959/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 271] Origenes Opera Omnia Read some Origen on Josue, and Soloviev (Lectures on God Manhood)-some material on Mount Athos-Allport on prej.. 1959/04/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 271] Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie Read some Origen on Josue, and Soloviev (Lectures on God Manhood)-some material on Mount Athos-Allport on prej.. 1959/04/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 272] Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Paths that Lead to the Same Summit "The time is coming when it will be necessary for the man who is to be called ‘educated' to know either Arab.. 1959/04/14 [Ltrs: CforT p. 96] Boris Pasternak I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography Thank you also for I Remember. You have presented it very attractively, and I am delighted to find in it the n.. 1959/04/15 [Ltrs: SofC p. 119] Cuthbert Butler Western Mysticism: The Teaching of SS Augustine Gregory and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life For the Novice Master"”well, it goes without saying that Bouyer's Meaning of the Monastic Life is fundamental... 1959/04/15 [Ltrs: SofC p. 119] Etienne Gilson Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard / translation from the French: La theologie mystique de Saint Bernard For the Novice Master"”well, it goes without saying that Bouyer's Meaning of the Monastic Life is fundamental... 1959/04/15 [Ltrs: SofC p. 119] Louis Bouyer Meaning of the Monastic Life For the Novice Master"”well, it goes without saying that Bouyer's Meaning of the Monastic Life is fundamental... 1959/05/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 389]   I ching : or book of changes / the Richard Wilhelm transl. ; rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes ; foreword by C.G. Jung The other thing that has kept me waiting is the need for time to digest the superb letter of Pasternak. Things.. 1959/05/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 390] Conrad Pepler English Religious Heritage But the important thing for you at the moment is not Zen or I Ching, so please do not let me distract you from.. 1959/05/05 [Ltrs: HGL p. 390] Louis Bouyer Newman: His Life and Spirituality But the important thing for you at the moment is not Zen or I Ching, so please do not let me distract you from.. 1959/05/08 [Ltrs: CforT p. 97-98] Carl Gustav Jung Undiscovered Self How happy I am that [C. G.] Jung is doing an autobiography, and that Kurt is working with him. I recently read.. 1959/05/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 279] Abraham Joshua Heschel Between God and Man. An Interpretation of Judaism Lax brought down the proofs of [Abraham] Heschel's God and Man - which looks very interesting. A Hasid, from W.. 1959/05/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 279] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas Third day of retreat. Yesterday, quiet-sunny day-spent all possible time in the woods reading and meditating. .. 1959/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 281] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas Yesterday all the red roses in the novitiate garden were blooming. Today the rhododendrons by St. Fiacre's shr.. 1959/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 281] Myrrha Lot-Borodin Nicolas Cabasilas: un maître de la spiritualite byzantine au XIVe siècle Yesterday all the red roses in the novitiate garden were blooming. Today the rhododendrons by St. Fiacre's shr.. 1959/05/13 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 281] Sydney Loch Athos, the Holy Mountain Yesterday all the red roses in the novitiate garden were blooming. Today the rhododendrons by St. Fiacre's shr.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 69] Constantine Cavarnos Anchored in God: Life, Art, and Thought on the Holy Mountain of Athos I am really enjoying Peaks and Lamas, and also the Athos book [Note 59: Conastantine Cavarnos, Anchored in God.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 4] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas The first thing to be said, of course, is that Hagia Sophia is God Himself. God is not only a Father but a Mot.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 5] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas I am really enjoying Peaks and Lamas, and also the Athos book has been very fin"”and the Hesiod. When you have.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 69] Marco Pallis Peaks and Lamas I am really enjoying Peaks and Lamas, and also the Athos book [Note 59: Conastantine Cavarnos, Anchored in God.. 1959/05/14 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 5] Sergei Nikolaevitch Bulgakov Wisdom of God: a Brief Summery of Sophiology Thank you for the photostats from the [Catholic] Encyclopedia [on Wisdom]. I looked them over, and they just b.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 59] Czeslaw Milosz Seizure of Power Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 59] Czeslaw Milosz Sur les bords de l'Issa Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 58] Lional Mordecai Trilling Broken Mirror: A Collection of Writings from Contemporary Poland / edited by Pawel Mayewski Reading The Broken Mirror, I was moved by the sense of real kinship with most of the writers. Underneath the i.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 61] Nicolai Berdyaev Meaning of Creation Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su.. 1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 61] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Solitude and Society Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su.. 1959/05/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 284] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Destiny of Man A quiet morning reading in the woodshed (for the first time in seventeen years had nothing to do with the deco.. 1959/06/07 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 286] Julien Hartridge Green Journals Saw Shakertown-the big old dormitories stood among the weeds in desolation. Yet there was still something youn.. 1959/06/20 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 232] Arthur Koestler Sleepwalkers I have not yet thanked you either for the books that J. Laughlin brought down. The Sleepwalkers is a real acqu.. 1959/06/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 298] Eckhart Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney Opened a new translation of Eckhart, and immediately hit upon this: "Obedience has no cares, it lacks no bless.. 1959/06/28 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 297] Gerard Manley Hopkins note-books and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Gerard Manley Hopkins ; ed. with notes and a pref. by Humphry House Baffled by the intensity of observation in the G. M. Hopkins notebooks (Thought I would talk to the novices ab.. 1959/07/12 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 304-05] Henri Troyat Case de l'Oncle Sam Borrowed from the Library of Congress Henri Troyat's La case de l'Oncle Sam. Journalism but refreshing-it is F.. 1959/07/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 306] D.H. Lawrence Mornings in Mexico Now too is the time to go into a different regime. I don't need all the library books I have been getting (tho.. 1959/08/09 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 315-16] William Blake Complete writings : with all the variant readings / William Blake ; ed. by Geoffrey Keynes And several books on Blake from U.K. library (I had asked for them). When I was in Louisville I picked up, on .. 1959/08/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 316-17] James Thurber Years with Ross Terrell Dickey lent me Thurber's book The Years with Ross. Interesting, and yet I don't laugh. In a way it is .. 1959/08/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 318] James Thurber Years with Ross The book about the New Yorker-Thurber's-oppresses me. Civilization oppresses me, or rather all that is new in .. 1959/08/22 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 320] James Thurber Years with Ross I continued to be interested and depressed by The Years with Ross. It is really a very remarkable book in its .. 1959/08/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 321] Herbert Butterfield Christianity and History Having been giving deep attention (as deep as possible when one is half awake before Sext) to Butterfield's bo.. 1959/08/24 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 263] Herbert Butterfield Christianity and History P. Danielou's book on History, which I have been reading, steered me toward an interesting Englishman called [.. 1959/08/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 321] James Thurber Years with Ross Yesterday finished The Years with Ross, and am tempted to write Thurber a note about it. This seems to be a go.. 1959/08/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 321] Paul Tillich Love, Power and Justice Reading Tillich's Love, Power and Justice and am excited by it; it is very dense and strong. The substrate of .. 1959/08/30 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 322] Carl Gustav Jung Undiscovered Self She [Fr. Anselm's sister] had been completely unable to understand Fr. A's vocation and had challenged him on .. 1959/09/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 576] Paul Tillich Love, Power and Justice For some time I have owed you this letter acknowledging your kind gift of Love Power and Justice with your own.. 1959/09/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 577] Paul Tillich Love, Power and Justice Finally I want to tell you how happy I am with the earlier chapters of The Theology of Culture, in which I fin.. 1959/09/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 576] Paul Tillich Theology of Culture For some time I have owed you this letter acknowledging your kind gift of Love Power and Justice with your own.. 1959/09/12 [Ltrs: CforT p. 114] Ernesto Cardenal Gethsemani, Ky Your poems about Gethsemani [Gethsemani, Ky.] are very effective and have a special meaning for anyone who kno.. 1959/09/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 330] Paul Evdokimov femme et le salut du monde : etude d'anthropologie chretienne sur les charismes de la femme / Paul Evdokimov Have been reading a marvelous book of theology by the Orthodox Father Paul Evdokimov who teaches at Saint Serg.. 1959/09/26 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 332]   Philokalia A copy of two volumes of the Philokalia sent by B. Rambusch from Athens, arrived the other day. Magnificent. I.. 1959/10/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 335] Tung-pin Lü Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life The last month has been too wild. Seeing too many people-but they came. God brought them. Distraction. I am ve.. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Abraham Joshua Heschel Man Is Not Alone I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 337] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel Fr. Tresmontant says "C'est au niveau politique que se posent les problèmes moraux les plus graves." ["The gr.. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Dane Chandos Village in the Sun I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Josef Pieper Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/10/25 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 336-37] Tung-pin Lü Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life I have been in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, for the removal of a rectal fistula. Went on the 14th. and .. 1959/11/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 338]   Dhammapada A lovely afternoon full of noise. Reading after dinner-snatches from the Dhammapada-I thought of this clear s.. 1959/11/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 339-40] Denis Rougement Western Quest: the Principles of Civilization Denis de Rougemont: The Western Quest - seeking to resolve the antimony inherent in personal life-an antimony .. 1959/11/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 340] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel "Les camps de concentration, les massacres, les tortures"¦nous rappelent queue est l'essence du paganisme: Le .. 1959/11/04 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 340] Denis Rougement Western Quest: the Principles of Civilization "Les camps de concentration, les massacres, les tortures"¦nous rappelent queue est l'essence du paganisme: Le .. 1959/11/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel Yet of what Laurens Van der Post says about the Bushmen. Tribal morality degenerated into collective immoralit.. 1959/11/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Laurens Post, Van Der Lost World of the Kalahari Yet of what Laurens Van der Post says about the Bushmen. Tribal morality degenerated into collective immoralit.. 1959/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Claude Tresmontant Doctrine morale des prophètes d'Israel Finished De Rougemont and Tresmontant, two fine books, especially the latter... 1959/11/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 341] Denis Rougement Western Quest: the Principles of Civilization Finished De Rougemont and Tresmontant, two fine books, especially the latter... 1959/11/16 [Ltrs: CforT p. 99] Tung-pin Lü Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life How is the Jung biography coming along? I was in the hospital lately and read there The Secret of the Golden F.. 1959/12/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 350]   Apophthegmata Patrum Solitude - witness to Christ - emptiness. Apophthegmata [Sayings of the Desert Fathers] in P[atrologia] G[raec.. 1959/12/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 350]   Cloud of Unknowing Knowles on the English mystics. How much I love the 14th. century and how truly it is my own century, the one .. 1959/12/02 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 350] David Knowles o.s.b. Religious Orders in England Knowles on the English mystics. How much I love the 14th. century and how truly it is my own century, the one .. 1959/12/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 353] Niall Brennan Making of a Moron Read a bit of Voillaume on the poverty of the Little Brothers. Finished Neal Breman's excellent book The Makin.. 1959/12/06 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 353] Rene Voillaume Au coeur des masses. La vie religieuse des Petits Frères du Père de Foucauld Read a bit of Voillaume on the poverty of the Little Brothers. Finished Neal Breman's excellent book The Makin.. 1959/12/08 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 354] Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev Meaning of History Berdyaev's Meaning of History made up of lectures given in Russia right after the Revolution, before he was ki.. 1959/12/10 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 356] Josef Pieper Leisure, The Basis of Culture I have finally gotten around to reading Pieper's fine little book Leisure, The Basis of Culture. It is very so.. 1959/12/20 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 360-61] Robert Lax Circus of the Sun Lax's Circus book is a tremendous poem, an Isaias-like prophecy which has a quality you just don't find in poe.. 1959/12/29 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 364] Charles Peguy Mystery of the Holy Innocents Read some of Peguy's "Mystery of the Holy Innocents" to the novices last evening... 1959/12/29 [Ltrs: Giroux p. 237] Robert Lax Circus of the Sun Have you seen Bob Lax's wonderful Circus poem [Circus of the Sun], now in a book of its own?.. 1959/12/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 364] Frances M. Cornford Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought Interesting book by Paul Radin on Philosophy of Primitive Man. Also Merleau-Ponty and Cornford on the early Gr.. 1959/12/31 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 364] Paul Radin Primitive Man as Philosopher Interesting book by Paul Radin on Philosophy of Primitive Man. Also Merleau-Ponty and Cornford on the early Gr.. 1960/01/01 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 365] Maurice Merleau-Ponty Sens et non-sens From Merleau-Ponty on Pseudo-scientific Marxism (Sens et non-sens, p. 223). Most intelligent papers I have yet.. 1960/01/13 [Ltrs: SofC p. 129] Cyprian Vagaggini Theological dimensions of the liturgy : a general treatise on the theology of the liturgy Thank you for Dom Cyprian Vagaggini's book which I am slowly reading with very great satisfaction. It is solid.. 1960/01/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 369] Hugh Trevor Roper Men and Events Trevor Roper's book, which solicits my agreement, and makes one wonder if I am being tempted to treachery. Too.. 1960/01/15 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 369] Nicholas of Narbonne Ignea Sagitta (The Flaming Arrow) Getting back read the Ignea Sagitta [The Fiery Arrow] again-in view of article on Carmelite ideal. It is clear.. 1960/01/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 370] Aeschylus Prometheus Bound After dinner-read the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus. Shattered by it. I do not know when I have read anything .. 1960/01/17 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 369-70] Justus George Lawler Catholic Dimension in Higher Education Very fine book by J. G. Lawler on The Catholic Dimension in Higher Education with splendid quotations from New.. 1960/01/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 235] Justus George Lawler Catholic Dimension in Higher Education Thank you for the new Qumram book which looks solid and interesting. I hope to enjoy it. At the moment I am pl.. 1960/01/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 372] Søren Kierkegaard Journals of Kierkegaard / translated bij Alexander Dru Read a little of Kierkegaard's Journal but the reading was spoiled by the fact that the more intense passages .. 1960/01/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 28] Jacques Maritain Liturgie et contemplation / par Jacques et Raïssa Maritain ; pref. de Charles Journet Many thanks for your valuable little book on Liturgy and Contemplation [Liturgie et contemplation, coauthored .. 1960/02/19 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 376] Johan Huizinga Erasmus and the Age of Reformation More snow and now, after so many very gloomy days, brilliant winter weather-all the snow freezing and bright s.. 1960/03/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 377] Bruno Snell Discovery of the mind: in Greek philosophy and literature Walked in the snow after dinner and read a little about St. Bede. There are so many things to read! Snell on t.. 1960/03/03 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 377] Erich Fromm Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis / Other autors: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Richard De Martino Must write to Fromm about the new book (Zen and Psychoanalysis) which is on the whole excellent, especially Su.. 1960/03/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 379] Giles Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. The life of Manning is a masterpiece. That of Arnold, disappointing. Tha.. 1960/03/18 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 380] Louis Massignon Akhbar al-Hallaj. Texte ancien relatif à la predication et au supplice du mystique musulman al-Hosayn B. Mansour al-Hallaj Reading [Al] Hallaj in Massignon's translation-about which I wrote him a letter today. Hallaj is right, and ou.. 1960/03/18 [Ltrs: WtoF p. 276] Louis Massignon Akhbar al-Hallaj. Texte ancien relatif à la predication et au supplice du mystique musulman al-Hosayn B. Mansour al-Hallaj How can I begin to write you a letter about the amazing book of the prayers and exhortations of Hallaj [Akhbar.. 1960/03/21 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 380] Nadejda Gorodetzky Humiliated Christ in Russian Thought Very important book-The Humiliated Christ in Russian Thought-from the Library of Congress. More and more impre.. 1960/04/14 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Gershom Gerhard Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Erich Fromm Art of Loving: an Enquiry into the Nature of Love Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Josef A. Jungmann Sacrifice of the Church: the Meaning of the Mass Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/16 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 384] Thomas Trahern Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings Excellent book by Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism and Traherne's Centuries, sent by Natasha Spender. .. 1960/04/24 [Jnl 3 ('52-'60) p. 385] Jacques Barzun House of Intellect Reading Barzun's House of Intellect. Good criticism of the so-called educational "system" which is no system... 1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 66] Albert Camus chute, recit At the same time I enjoy and respect Camus, and think I understand him. What you said about La Chute struck me