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The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (Classic Reprint) Hardcover – August 24, 2018
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where Wealth accumulates and Men decay. SO rang Of Old the noble voice in vain O'er the Last Peasants wandering on the plain, Doom has reversed the riddle and the rhyme, While sinks the commerce reared upon that crime, The thriftless towns litter with lives undone, TO Whom our madness left no joy but one; And irony that glares like Judgment Day Sees Men accumulate and Wealth decay.
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- Print length397 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication dateAugust 24, 2018
- Dimensions9 x 6 x 0.39 inches
- ISBN-100331360780
- ISBN-13978-0331360783
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- Publisher : Forgotten Books (August 24, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 397 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0331360780
- ISBN-13 : 978-0331360783
- Item Weight : 1.52 pounds
- Dimensions : 9 x 6 x 0.39 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,764,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #43,055 in Poetry (Books)
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity's most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016This is a great collection that includes numerous short poems as well as The Ballad of the White Horse. It isn't a complete collection and there are a few notable poems, such as The Towers of Time, missing from the book but overall I have no reservations in calling this a great collection.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2018A comprehensive collection.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2000You must get this book, whether you are a Chesterton fan or simply a lover of poetry. Even if you don't like poetry, this gold mine may convert you. The power and beauty of some of Chesterton's poetry is unsurpassed, and even his lesser stuff is generally very good.
This book would be worth it for the Ballad of the White Horse alone; Charles Williams (whose opinions are not to be sniffed at) has said that the Ballad may possibly be the best war poetry since Homer, and that many passages are in fact better than portions of the Iliad. The characters are also very well-developed and memorable (I plan on naming one of my children Colan, if/when I have children).
This is, of course, a dificult volume to find; Amazon is definitely the best route, in my opinion. I spent [my money] to get a rather beat-up copy, and it has been my most satisfying online purchase ever. Do get this one.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2000GKC's poems are certainly beautiful, as language is capable of being (you know, rhyme and meter--the way each syllable feels in the mouth or on the ear), but what strikes me about them is not the mere sound or configuration of the words (although they indeed sound wonderful); rather, it is the powerful and often startling insights which they convey (Insight, I suppose, is what we have come to expect from Mr. Chesterton). I wholeheartedly commend this collection to you (particularly The Last Masquerade, A Certain Evening, and The Convert). Good luck finding a copy.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2021I had thought I was buying a kindle book, which I love because I can enlarge the print size. It's not. It's a scan of a very old book.