The French-born English writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc (1870-1953) was a noted poet, historian, essayist, and novelist. Throughout his literary career he was concerned with the problems of social...
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Hilaire Belloc 's literary reputation is currently in decline. Yet during his lifetime, he achieved great acclaim for his writings in a wide variety of genres. His contemporary fame was linked to that...
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In his time Hilaire Belloc enjoyed the same popularity with readers as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and G. K. Chesterton. He wrote poetry, fiction, history, travel pieces, and works on topogr...
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Hilaire Belloc was born in the middle of a thunderstorm, and it is hard for anyone writing about him now to resist observing how apt was this scene, since thunderclouds of controversy, often of his ow...
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Hilaire Belloc is chiefly remembered for his controversial political opinions, often belligerent character, and strong allegiance to the Catholic Church. His deep feelings about the important politica...
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In the following essay, Kilmer terms Belloc as a natural poet better known for his prose.
Far from the poets being astray in prose-writing (said Francis Thompson), it might plausibly be contended that...
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In the following essay, Markel surveys the style and themes of Belloc's unpublished political poetry, maintaining that he "succeeded in transforming contemporary political intrigue and c...
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In the following essay, Hart emphasizes the importance of history and politics in Belloc's work.
Have you seen the Pope's gentle remarks to the Modernists? They are indeed noble! I coul...
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In the following essay, Wilson provides a brief and favorable overview of Belloc's poetry.
When my biography of Hilaire Belloc appeared in 1983, it was discussed on a television programme. I wa...
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In the following essay, the critic offers a mixed review of the poems comprising Sonnets and Verses.
Mr. Belloc, who has been of our times one of the most copious writers in prose, has issued, apart f...
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In the following essay, Pennington provides a positive assessment of Belloc's verse.
A critic has recently reminded us that Mr. Belloc has just turned sixty. A good age, and well employed, when...
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In the following essay, Jebb explores the autobiographical aspects of Belloc's poetry.
In the latter years of his life Belloc often repeated that what he would wish to be remembered by was his ...
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In the following essay, the anonymous critic analyzes Belloc's Cautionary Verses from a metaphysical perspective and compares it to other works of English literature.
The serious foreign reader...
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In the following essay, White contrasts the poetry of G. K. Chesterton and Belloc.
It is almost a Chestertonian paradox that an eyewitness cannot see clearly. Only at a distance, across a gulf of year...
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In the following essay, Markel discusses the defining characteristics of Belloc's poetry.
During a writing career of more than forty-five years, Hilaire Belloc turned out almost one hundred and...
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In the following excerpt from his biography of Belloc, Wilson offers a mixed assessment of Belloc's poetry
The first book which Belloc published was a small collection entitled Verses and Sonne...
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In the following essay, Markel asserts that some of Belloc 's unpublished verses are "equal in quality to his best published poetry."
On January 13, 1911, the Northern Newspaper S...
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Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc
(Joseph) Hilaire (Pierre Sebastien Rene Swanton) Belloc
