Lanier, Sidney

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Beats rocket science
The Seven Story Mountain
Surprising journey of Faith

The Seven Storey Mountain
Thomas Merton
Manufacturer: Phoenix Audio
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ASIN: 1597771147

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In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton's autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: "I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both." --Michael Joseph Gross

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From one of the 20th century's best-loved Christian writers comes this extraordinary spiritual testament. Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is a man who experienced life to its fullest "in the world" before entering a Trappist monastery. Abridged. 3 CDs.

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CD is good, but needs an unabridged version........2007-05-22

Only commenting on the audio CD version of SSM. It needs an Unabridged version. This version has been shortened considerably. Also, there should be price consistant with the printed version. CD media is very inexpensive to produce. With an abridged version of the book, I would have expected a better price.

Exceptional Read.......2007-03-18

This book has been around as long as I've been alive and I have read it several times. Of all religious centered books that I have read, I believe that The Seven Storey Mountain brought me back into the Catholic Faith. Thomas Merton was not an angel and neither were the Saints. Thomas Merton was and is a complex person. If you read this auto-biography, you will not know the real Thomas Merton. It would be beneficial to read his Journals to get a real look into his mind and in the way he expresses the mystery of God and religous life. His desire for seclusion in the monastic life was constantly being challenged by his prolific writings and his popularity in the "outside world." It is also interesting to note that Thomas' background was English Litertature and not Theology, which is to me an enigma in that how can someone from a secular background have the knowledge base of describing his journey into the Great Mystery. Thomas was truly given the gift of the Holy Spirit in order to write his wonderful journey for us to follow with him.

I totally recommend this great book for anyone who wants to understand their own journey into the Great Mystery.

Beats rocket science.......2007-02-06

Read it, think it, pray it, complete it. In a few days or weeks Merton will call round and leave you with a problem, you will be expected to work
at it, and you won't regret it. At first it may seem secular,but,you can
be assured it will be essentially what you should be doing right now about
the God Merton lived for.

The Seven Story Mountain.......2007-01-06

It was quite refreshing to read such clear prose describing a journey of faith from over half a century ago. Merton is writing from his time period, aware of prejudices and doubts from the WW II era, but there is timeless message about the beauty and power of faith. Interesting that a monk who took a vow of silence is one of the 20th century's most eloquent writers, able to convey what he thought and felt as a young man, growing up in France, England, and the United States in the shadows of war.

Surprising journey of Faith.......2006-12-30

I lived in Kentucky for 10 years, and I heard of Thomas Merton. I was afraid to try to read any of his works as I thought that they would be so deep I wouldn't be able to relate. Thomas Merton has shared with us his journey into Cistercian life that was easy to read, and I found myself not wanting to put it down, and when I finished I found that I wanted to hear more from him. It reminded me of the life of St. Augustine.

King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table (Illustrated Junior Library)

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King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table (Illustrated Junior Library)
Sidney, Ed. Lanier
Manufacturer: Grosset & Dunlap
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GOYFU6

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An invaluable reprint of the 1916 edition.
An 19th Century Materpiece!

Poems of Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1426436610

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With a Memorial by William Hayes Ward.

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Shall self-wrapt husbands aye forget Kiss-pardons for the daily fret Wherewith sweet wifely eyes are wet-- Blind to lips kiss-wise set-- Fair Lady?

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An invaluable reprint of the 1916 edition........2001-04-18

This is an invaluable reprint of the 1916 edition of Mary Lanier's 1884 collection, which is only marred by a certain over-solicitousness for the poet's fame that depreciates the early poems and the jolly, Twainy "dialect" poems, whice rise to Frost in "Thar's more in the Man than thar is in the Land."

Sidney Lanier saw the Real through "Christ's crystal" clear as the great fourth stanza of "Song of the Chattahoochee":

And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,
And many a luminous jewel lone
---Crystals clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst---
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.

"A Florida Sunday" is an evocation pure as any of Florida, and there is homesickness in "From the Flats":

Oh might I through these tears
But glimpse some hill my Georgia high uprears,
Where white the quartz and pink the pebble shine,
The hickory heavenward strives, the muscadine
Swings o'er the slope, the oak's far-falling shade
Darkens the dogwood in the bottom glade,
And down the hollow from a ferny nook
Bright leaps a living brook!

The famous "Hymns of the Marshes" are what Georgia is like, so that when in "Ireland" he offers against the famine "the main and cordial current of our love," he prophesies Finnegans Wake.

Hart Crane's noble tribute to "Psalm of the West", Pound's rare salute to "A Ballad of Trees and the Master", bespeak a poet loudly ignored.

His great Cantata for the Centennial would serve as well in 1976.

In his Afterword, John Hollander points to "the opening line of 'The Marshes of Glynn,' when separated from the weaker, rhyming second one: 'Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven'; here again we feel that the music of Lanier's verse lies closer to the ebb and flow of Whitman's than to the brilliant contraptions of Swinburne's." That second line is, "With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven"---go on to the third, "Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs," and you have Lanier.

An 19th Century Materpiece!.......2000-03-28

Sidney Lanier was perhaps the greatest poet produced by the South during the the 19th Century. His descriptions of the nature and the Georgian Marshes of Glen, as in "the slant yellow beam of the sun doth seem like a lane from Heaven that leads to a dream..." and "belief overmasters doubt and I know that I know..." are words that feed the soul with the timeless nector of wisdom and humanity. I treasure this book and any student of the American South and/or of American Poetry will find Mr. Lanier's style of alliteration and assonance, together with his wonderful imagery to be a feast for the soul in solitude.

The Boy's King Arthur (Dover Storybooks for Children)

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English people use fancy words that are out dated
King Arthur and his Most Noble Knights
The Story Of King Arthur and His Knights
Gorgeous collectable..
King Aurthur his nights and their ladies.

The Boy's King Arthur (Dover Storybooks for Children)
Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486448002

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Rousing story of the legendary ruler of ancient England and his Knights of the Round Table lure young readers with stories about the birth and death of Arthur; his noble knights; and honor, chivalry, and the quest for the Holy Grail. Text enhanced with 15 of N. C. Wyeth's magnificent full-color illustrations.

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English people use fancy words that are out dated.......2003-01-10

Arthurian Supremacy
This book is broken down into seven smaller books. The titles are as follows, "King Arthur", " Sir Lancelot Du Lake", "Garneth of Orokearly", "Sir Tristram", Galahd Sir Percival and the quest for the holy Grail", "The Fair maid of Astolate" And "The death of Arthur". This novel contains all of the classic stories about Arthur and his knights. From the birth of Arthur to the fall of his kingdom, this book has it all. Sadly there are basically no changes to the story line at all which can be disappointing. I Personally do not recommend this book for new readers or people who like to fast read given that the old English context makes it confusing and hard to read The old context is kind of a two edged sword it is both confusing and interesting. This novel was written by N. V. Kilen

King Arthur and his Most Noble Knights.......2003-01-10

King Arthur's Noble knights
Sidney Lanier's re-telling of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table may appear confusing. However this story has the same original plot and theme of King Arthur weaved into the story. This book contains stories on the coming and passing of Arthur in the 6th century, King Arthur's most noble knights, and the quest for the Holly Grail.
Sidney Lanier's version tells more details then other novels of King Arthur. For instance, Lanier always describes what knights do when they traveling to a destination. He tells where the knights stop and sleep for the nights and what they eat the next morning.
Lastly, in my opinion this book should be read by adults who understand the meaning of words such as wrought, meseemeth, and wot. I did not enjoy reading this novel because of the complexity of the language.

The Story Of King Arthur and His Knights.......2003-01-09

N.C. Wyeth illustrated the book of "The Boy's King Arthur"in 1917. The Boy's King Arthur, is avout the top main knights such as, Lancelot, and how they become a knight. This story exists as part of the original King Arthur stories, but it becomes shorter than the original. Also in The Boys King Arthur, you will encounter how knights acted back in the fourth century.
The author of this story uses more details, and more unique, and unusual things than the original story. The battle with Mordred and Arthur at the end, I considered that to be an extremely unique fight, because Mordred becomes a traitor to his own father, Arthur. Unusually, N.C. Wyeth adds old English in the ways of back then in the story. The Narrator of The Boys King Arthur remains just an outsider of the story. The main setting of the novel places in England, and the themes of the novel, exists as just how peasents and people become the top Knights of the Round Table. (Lancelot, Tristram, Galahad, Percival, and the fair maid of Astolat) Also the story illustrates how King Arthur becomes King of England, And his death.
I recommend that people should read this book only if they're thirteen and up. Also I recommend that you should read The Boys King Arthur only if you read the original version of King Arthur. I say this because the book remains in old English, and might be quite hard to understand. I thought this book is quite hard to understand of the old English, and the length of the book with the old English.

Gorgeous collectable.........2002-06-11

This is a most gorgeous book, well produced on beautiful paper, with wonderful reproductions of the original NC Wyeth pictures. A collectable to treasure!

King Aurthur his nights and their ladies........2000-03-30

I think this book is very good in how it explanes the adventures king Aurthur has. I would only recomend this book to someone that likes midevil times.

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POEMS OF SIDNEY LANIER
Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GRQWRM

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Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Unknown Binding

Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and: His Knights of the Round Table

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Boy's King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and: His Knights of the Round Table
Sidney Editor Lanier
Manufacturer: Charles Scribners Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FEUBEG

Florida and miscellaneous prose, (Centennial edition of the works of Sidney Lanier)

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Florida and miscellaneous prose, (Centennial edition of the works of Sidney Lanier)
Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Music And Poetry: Essays Upon Some Aspects And Interrelations Of The Two Arts (Music Book Index)

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Music And Poetry: Essays Upon Some Aspects And Interrelations Of The Two Arts (Music Book Index)
Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: Reprint Services Corp
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Binding: Library Binding

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Poems
Sidney Lanier
Manufacturer: J. B. Lippincott
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NYGSB8

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