Tuesday, January 31, 2006

For Four Guilds: The Bridge-Builders

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Chesterton's For Four Guilds continues apace. We come now to those venerable mediators, the bridge-builders. II. The Bridge-Builders I...
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GKC and Confession

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The Anchoress invokes GKC : As Voltaire said: ‘Repentance for our faults can alone take the place of innocence, and that, to show ourselves ...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

For Four Guilds: The Glass-Stainers

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In my continuing efforts to expand the breadth of Chesterton's online presence (which would, perhaps, be like trying to make the world r...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Chesterton on Deus Caritas Est

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[T]here is no saying which the humanitarians of a broad religion more commonly offer as a model of simplicity than that most mystical affirm...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

The Voice of Tolkien

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Denny Hartford, blogger ( The Book Den ) and Chestertonian, pointed out that Harper Collins has made some interesting audio clips available ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Colloquium

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If you're going to be in Upland, IN from June 1st through 4th this year, you might consider attending the Frances White Ewbank Colloquiu...

Splitcat Chintzibobs

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Dr. Thursday recently wrote about the "difficult question" of character names in fiction. Several snippets from Chesterton are in...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Another Chesterton Fan in Blogdom

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I'm constantly amazed at how many Chesterton references I see in blogdom. At least two or three a day. The latest: A blogger responds t...

John Derbyshire on Chesterton

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Yesterday on National Review Online John Derbyshire took a weak stab against GKC : "It was merry in England before this new learning c...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

A new Chesterton poem

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The title of this post is not accurate. The poem was first published in 1922, in The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses . This book is...
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Friday, January 20, 2006

The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult

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The Romance Of Tristan And Iseult was retold in French by Joseph Bédier (1900); and our Hilaire Belloc provided an English translation of B...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Japan with a Beard

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"Momus" at Wired News begins his article about population decline in Japan by quoting Chesterton : G.K. Chesterton opens his bree...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Rich and Dumb

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This reminds me of G.K. Chesterton’s observation that in order to be smart enough to earn a lot of money, you must be dumb enough to want a ...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Kirk was a GKC Friend

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The anonymous blogger at Burke to Kirk quotes Chesterton to make a larger point about capital punishment. I don't necessarily agree wit...

Remembering the Big Guy

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Alexander Woollcott first met Chesterton in May of 1914, when they lunched together in Soho. Woolcott recalled what GKC had said on the diff...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Chesterton on Shaw & Spelling

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This excerpt from Chesterton's George Bernard Shaw may be interesting to you after reading the essay Nick found , Hilaire Belloc's ...

Belloc in Expression

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Though he is overshadowed (sometimes, perhaps unfairly) by his enormous friend G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc was nonetheless capable of sp...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

Belloc in the New Statesman

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The upcoming issue of the New Statesman (Jan. 16, 2006) will feature a reprint of Hilaire Belloc's 1930 essay, "On Spelling,"...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Chesterton in Rolling Stone

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G.K. Chesterton is quoted (sort of) in a new article about Neil Young in Rolling Stone magazine: "[Neil Young] receives songs as much a...

Pearce: Chesterton Was Wrong

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Carl Olson recently interviewed Joseph Pearce about his new book Flowers of Heaven: One Thousand Years of Christian Verse (IgnatiusInsight....