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- G.K. Chesterton (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.
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He was a modernist, acutely alive to the rupture in consciousness that produced Eliot's "The Hollow Men"; he was an anti-modernist...a parochial Englishman and a post-Victorian gasbag; he was a mystic wedded to eternity.
Sep 19, 2024 · G.K. Chesterton (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure. (Read Chesterton’s 1929 Britannica essay on Dickens.)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chesterton argued eloquently against all the trends that eventually took over the 20th century: materialism, scientific determinism, moral relativism, and spineless agnosticism. He also argued against both socialism and capitalism and showed why they have both been the enemies of freedom and justice in modern society. And what did he argue for?
- Dale Ahlquist
- As a child, Chesterton was a slow learner. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in an affluent area of London in 1874. He attended a prestigious all-boys school but was such a slow learner he did not learn to read until he was 8.
- He almost became a professor, though he never graduated college. After graduation he attended the Slade School of Art to become an illustrator, and took classes in literature at University College London.
- Chesterton was one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote about 80 books and made contributions to 200 more. He wrote hundreds of poems—including an epic poem—five plays, five novels, and 200 short stories, including a popular series featuring the detective priest Father Brown.
- Chesterton’s wrote detective fiction about a crime-solving priest. Between 1910 and 1936, he published short stories about a Catholic priest and amateur detective known as Father Brown.
May 30, 2024 · Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was a prominent literary figure of the 20th century London. He was a highly versatile individual who was as respected as a writer as he was for being an orator and Christian apologist.
Sep 5, 2005 · For six months in 1903-4, he invited Chesterton and other Christians to defend their beliefs in weekly columns. Chesterton’s three contributions argued that the Christian worldview was much more rational than anything so-called rationalists had proposed.
You’ve written that Chesterton helped you recover the joy of faith. How did he do that? Chesterton believed that a godly way of life is the best way of all ways.
