The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University

[Manuscript]

(St. Bonaventure University ms.52)
198 p. : ill. ; 26x 20 cm.
1938.
Cloth spine, paper cover, composition style notebook ("National" brand).
140 pages blank.
Text in pencil (a few small sketches), almost exclusively on right-hand pages.
Inside front cover: "Art of Poetry. Thomas Merton. Columbia University. 1938".
Subject: Class notes from Columbia University, Comparative Literature 250, Art of Poetry, Spring 1938.
Readings for the course included The Faerie Queen, The Prelude, Troilus and Criseyde, Orlando Furioso and Don Juan.

Provenance: Presumably given to Fr. Irenaeus Herscher when Merton was preparing to enter the Trappist Order in December of 1941.

Described by PJS