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Greeneâs introductory memoir sets the scene, describing the unexpectedly rich intellectual and artistic milieu out in the "hinterland" of Kentucky where he was introduced to Merton through mutual friends. Two brief essays on Merton provide further context for the letters that follow, and demonstrate both the breadth of Mertonâs literary interests and the depth of Greeneâs knowledge of his friendâs writings. Their letters, all too few, coincided with the limited run of Mertonâs literary magazine, Monks Pond, and his exchange with Greene (then publishing his own journal, Gnomon) reveals two deeply erudite and abundantly witty minds at work with the earnest joy of language. The longing of the reader that this collaboration might have lasted for many more years is underscored by the poignancy of Greeneâs elegiac poem that closes the volume.
Both Greene and Merton have been hermits in their respective fashions, yet both in finding their footing away from the larger world found that their feet were nevertheless on the pathway connecting them to that world, engaging them in the life of the mind and of the spirit. Their words, surviving the silence of decades, are indeed all the better for it.
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