Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton by G.K.
G. K. Chesterton in later life (Click on thumbnail for larger image.) An ebullient, larger-than-life character, the writer G. K. Chesterton was a Londoner through and through. He was born in Kensington and educated at St Paul's School, London. Then, with the idea of becoming a book illustrator, he enrolled at the Slade School of Art at University College in 1892. He was less than happy there.
Thus wrote, or confessed, G. K. Chesterton in an essay entitled “Christmas that is Coming”, published in the Illustrated London News in 1906. Now, on the eleventy-third anniversary of Chesterton having indulged the “dangerous or disgusting habit”, I am following his ignoble example. To be fair to myself, and to Chesterton, I don’t really think that getting into the Christmas spirit.
Tremendous Trifles, a collection of essays meditating on the joys of common life, is a real treasure. Unlike his fiction, it gets Chesterton wrapped up in the fun of the real human experience without worrying about characterizing some caricature.
Magic by G.K. Chesterton. Another David Langford appreciation. Magic was G.K. Chesterton's first play. When it appeared, his reputation had already been made: his occasionally ramshackle brilliance could illuminate essays (The Defendant), novels (The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday), criticism (Robert Browning, Charles Dickens), philosophy (Orthodoxy), detective stories (The.
Critically appreciate the essay 'A Piece of Chalk' by G.K.Chesterton? The essay 'A Piece of Chalk' by G.K. Chesterton was typical of those writings of his which reflected on life's deeper purpose.
All of G. K. Chesterton Poems. G. K. Chesterton Poetry Collection from Famous Poets and Poems.
The Donkey By G. K. Chesterton. When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb, I keep my secret still.
G.K. Chesterton was a well-known novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and ardent apologist for the Christian faith. One of Britain’s most famous and prolific twentieth century writers, his apologetic works—such as Orthodoxy—have influenced generations of Christian belief. His historical works have made important theologians accessible to modern Christians, and his essays and commentary.
G.K. Chesterton, in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.
The Essayist. With over 7,000 essays to his name, G.K. Chesterton is one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. The Twelve Men An incomparable explanation of juries. Negative and Positive Morality Salvation is not negative, but highly positive. On Mending and Ending Things Two opposite methods to reform. The Extraordinary Cabman A parable on certainty. A Defence of Rash Vows The.
THE ESSAY by G. K. Chesterton. THE ESSAY is the only literary form which confesses, in its very name, that the rash act known as writing is really a leap in the dark. When men try to write a tragedy, they do not call the tragedy a try-on.
The Poet and the Cheese. There is something creepy in the flat Eastern Counties; a brush of the white feather. There is a stillness, which is rather of the mind than of the bodily senses. Rapid changes and sudden revelations of scenery, even when they are soundless, have something in them analogous to a movement of music, to a crash or a cry. Mountain hamlets spring out on us with a shout like.
G. K. Chesterton was one of the dominating figures of the London literary scene in the early twentieth century. Not only did he get into lively discussions with anyone who would debate him, including his friend, frequent verbal sparring partner, and noted Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, but he wrote about seemingly every topic, in every genre, from journalism to plays, poetry to crime.
