Biography EssayBest known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his fulllength books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great e...
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The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he con...
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"G. K. Chesterton," declared William B. Furlong in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "was a legend in London literary circles even during his lifetime. George Bernard Shaw called him 'a man of col...
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G. K. Chesterton was a legend in London literary circles even during his lifetime. George Bernard Shaw called him "a man of colossal genius," and as a young man Chesterton was hailed as Fleet Street...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a poet who is also remembered as an essayist, a novelist and short-story writer, a literary critic, a playwright, and a religious controversialist. As the author of more t...
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G. K. Chesterton was a writer of volcanic intelligence and gentle wit, who, over a forty-year career, produced hundreds of essays and over one hundred books. Approximately a dozen of these books have...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hil...
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Best known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his full-length books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great essayists of th...
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G. K. Chesterton, one of the most versatile men of letters of his generation--he distinguished himself, to a greater or lesser degree, as essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, detective story writer, ...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton a...
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In the following excerpt, Kantra examines G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, concentrating on their roles as religious satirists and Christian apologists.
The intricate affinities of G. K. Chesterton a...
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In the following review, Robson maintains that Chesterton's detective stories deserve more serious critical attention than is customary for the genre.
Chesterton himself did not attach great im...
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‘I won't discuss whether we can be killed by something that happened in the thirteenth century; but I'm jolly certain that we can't be killed by something that never happe...
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In the following essay, Clipper observes that Chesterton followed the Romantic school of early twentieth-century literature.
Describing the fiction of the 1890's, one critic states that “...
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In the following review, Hayes and Tololyan consider Borges' use of “Chestertonian” themes in his own detective stories.
Traces, tracks, texts, tradition: Borges is no stranger to...
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In the following review, Porter explores the “Father Brown” stories as a tool used by Chesterton to demonstrate Christian perspectives.
In the opening sequence of a recent Paul Newman fi...
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In the following review, Knox describes Chesterton's writings as an outlet in which the author demonstrates his personal philosophies.
When you met Chesterton in life, the physical bigness of t...
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In the following essay, Priestman discusses Chesterton's use of the detective story format to explore theological issues.
As a detective writer, G. K. Chesterton combines several of the concern...
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In the following review, Cervo argues that Chesterton's Valentin character was created to personify those who would destroy the Catholic Church.
In the Father Brown story, “The Secret Ga...
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In the following review, Sipe and Lamb note significant differences between the two priest detectives in Chesterton's and Greeley's stories.
Monsignor John Blackwood Ryan (formerly Fathe...
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In the following review, Raubicheck discusses Chesterton's approach to allegory in his writings.
G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Sayers share the unusual distinction of being among this century�...
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In the following essay, Kirk compares the poetry and philosophies of T. S. Eliot and G. K. Chesterton, noting that although the two writers were both considered conservative, “Christian apologi...
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In the following essay, Dooley demonstrates how Chesterton used satire in his poetry and prose not simply as a gently humorous device, but also as a persuasive tool backed by moral substance.
In his b...
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In the following essay, LeVay describes the historical events that Chesterton left out of his poem about the sixteenth-century battle between a Turkish and a Christian fleet in the Gulf of Lepanto.
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In the following review of Chesterton's Poems, the reviewer concludes that the volume contains both the “best and … worst” of Chesterton's works, and that Chesterton...
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In the following review of Chesterton's Poems, Soule asserts that the poet takes refuge in “religious orthodoxy,” “banality and bravado” in order to avoid the discom...
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In the following review of works by and about G. K. Chesterton, the reviewer observes that Chesterton's The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses reveals the poet's talent as a “...
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In the following review of Chesterton's The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses, H. E. P. describes Chesterton as a patriotic poet whose facility with words usually overcomes any flaws in hi...
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In the following excerpt, Benet gives a positive review of The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton, concluding that Chesterton's poetry in particular “communicates noble emotion.”...
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In the following review of the Collected Poems, Clark emphasizes Chesterton's frequent use of paradox.
Paradoxical always, Mr. Chesterton lives up to his reputation in this new collection of hi...
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In the following essay, Petitpas examines the philosophical, Christian, and Romantic elements that influence both Chesterton's own poetry and his ideas about poetry in general.
Critics of poetr...
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