Beauty and the Imagination
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
While T.S. Eliot never made any comments critical of Charles Darwin or his theory of the evolution of species, he was quite critical of various popularized versions…
In what we have written here over the months about G.K. Chesterton, we have gone on and on about Chesterton the essayist and about Chesterton the newspaper…
G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. Ian Ker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. It is certainly a great thick square book (on a great thick round subject). A…
In the 12 October 1929 issue of the Illustrated London News, G.K. Chesterton wrote: ". . . How much more melancholy is the condition of those, in…
When G.K. Chesterton died on Jun 14, 1936, about six months after Rudyard Kipling, both men were long out of fashion, By now, as they recede in…
In the 7th of July 2008 issue of the New Yorker , Mr. Adam Gopnik published "The Back of the World" (G.K. Chesterton's 'The Man who was…