THE WILD KNIGHT
Another tattered rhymster in the ring,
With but the old plea to the sneering
schools,
That on him too, some secret night in spring
Came the old frenzy of a hund...
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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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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 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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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 Wild Knight and Other Poems
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton