| Author Quoted | Mark Van Doren |
| Title Quoted | Collected and New Poems, 1924-1963 |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/08/18 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Farrar. Straus and Giroux, 1963 |
| Quotation | Thanks for the letter and above all for the book [Van Doren's Collected and New Poems, 1924"”1963]. THE book in every way: yours, ours, the year's, the world's and the time's. As it should be, a world in itself, and a century in itself, an era, an Eden, full of Bible, full of world, full of America, full of farms and people and animals. In every way the best book ever "¦ |
| Journal | The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 45-46 |
| Link to Merton's Copy |
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