For For general readers who want Merton's late, plain essays on love, learning and living; a good second book.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
4 of 5strongly recommended
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Late essays and meditations on love, learning and finding oneself, collected after his death.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential4 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A posthumous collection of Merton's essays and meditations, edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Patrick Hart and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1979 (232 pages in the Harcourt Brace paperback of 1985). The pieces, mostly from his last years, centre on the need for love in learning to live, among them the essays "Love and Need" and "Learning to Live".
