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    The Man And His Image And Other Poems
    The Man And His Image And Other Poems
    The Man And His Image And Other Poems
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    The Man And His Image And Other Poems

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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this second volume we look further at the works of the eminent English writer and poet GK Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the illustrators art and literature. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic. In 1901 he married Frances Blogg, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life. Thereafter he obtained weekly columns in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. For many he is known as a very fine novelist and the creator of the Father Brown Detective stories which were much influenced by his own beliefs. A large man – 6’ 42 and 21st in weight he was apt to be forgetful in that delightful way that the British sometimes are – a telegram home to his wife saying he was in one place but where should he actually be. He was prolific in many other areas; he wrote plays, essays, loved to debate and wrote hundreds of poems. It is on his poems that we concentrate this volume. They range from the virtues of the English to his religious beliefs. Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on 14th June 1936 and is buried in Beaconsfield just outside of London. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    Release dateAug 20, 2013
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    The Man And His Image And Other Poems
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    G.K. Chesterton

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) était un écrivain, philosophe, dramaturge, journaliste et critique littéraire anglais, largement reconnu pour son esprit incisif et sa plume prolifique. Né à Londres, Chesterton a étudié à la Slade School of Fine Art avant de se tourner vers l'écriture. Chesterton est surtout connu pour ses romans, ses essais et ses nouvelles. Parmi ses oeuvres les plus célèbres, on trouve "L'Homme qui était Jeudi" et la série de nouvelles mettant en scène le père Brown, un prêtre détective. Son style unique, caractérisé par un humour brillant, des paradoxes et une profonde réflexion philosophique, a fait de lui une figure centrale de la littérature anglaise du début du XXe siècle. En tant que critique social et littéraire, Chesterton a écrit sur une variété de sujets, allant de la théologie à la politique, en passant par l'art et la littérature. Ses essais, publiés dans des journaux et des revues, étaient appréciés pour leur clarté de pensée et leur capacité à rendre accessibles des concepts complexes. La conversion de Chesterton au catholicisme en 1922 a influencé une grande partie de son travail ultérieur, ajoutant une dimension spirituelle et théologique à ses écrits. Il a utilisé sa plume pour défendre la foi et critiquer le matérialisme et le relativisme de son époque. Outre sa carrière littéraire, Chesterton était un conférencier populaire et un débatteur public. Son charisme et son talent oratoire attiraient de larges audiences, et ses débats avec des figures contemporaines telles que George Bernard Shaw sont restés célèbres. Gilbert Keith Chesterton est décédé en 1936, mais son héritage perdure à travers ses nombreux écrits, qui continuent d'inspirer et de provoquer la réflexion. Son oeuvre reste un témoignage de son génie littéraire et de sa capacité à combiner humour, profondeur philosophique et critique sociale.

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      The Man And His Image And Other Poems - G.K. Chesterton

      GK Chesterton Man & His Image and Other Poems

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.  In this second volume we look further at the works of the eminent English writer and poet GK Chesterton.

      Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874.  Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the illustrators art and literature.  In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic. 

      In 1901 he married Frances Blogg, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life. Thereafter he obtained weekly columns in the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. 

      For many he is known as a very fine novelist and the creator of the Father Brown Detective stories which were much influenced by his own beliefs. 

      A large man – 6’ 4" and 21st in weight he was apt to be forgetful in that delightful way that the British sometimes are – a telegram home to his wife saying he was in one place but where should he actually be.  He was prolific in many other areas; he wrote plays, essays, loved to debate and wrote hundreds of poems.  It is on his poems that we concentrate this volume.   They range from the virtues of the English to his religious beliefs. 

      Chesterton died of congestive heart failure on 14th June 1936 and is buried in Beaconsfield just outside of London.

      The Poetry of GK Chesterton is also available in this series.

      Index of Poems

      Africa

      Alone

      An Alliance

      Ancient of Days

      Art Colours

      At Night

      Ballad of The God-Makers

      Ballad of The Sun

      Behind

      Blessed Are the Peacemakers

      By The Babe Unborn

      Certain Evening

      Chord of Colour

      Confessional

      Cyclopean

      Dead Hero

      Desecraters

      Earth's Shame

      Earth's Vigil

      End of Fear

      Escape

      Fairy Tale

      Fantasia

      Fish

      Good News

      Happy Man

      Hope of The Streets

      Horrible History of Jones

      Hunting of The Dragon

      King's Cross Station

      Kingdom Of Heaven

      Lamp Post

      Last Masquerade

      Lost

      Man and His Image

      Mariner

      Marriage Song

      Mediaevilism

      Memory

      Mirror of Madmen

      Modern Elfland

      Mortal Answers

      Mystery

      Nativity

      Nightmare

      Novelty

      Old Song

      Outlaw

      Pessimist

      Philanthropist

      Poland

      Portrait

      Praise of Dust

      Red Sea

      Second Childhood

      Thou Shalt Not Kill

      Trinkets

      Triumph of Man

      Two Women

      Ultimate

      Vanity

      When I Came Back To Fleet Street

      Wise Men

      Wood Cutter

      GK Chesterton – A Biography

      Africa

      A sleepy people, without priests or kings,

      Dreamed here, men say, to drive us to the sea:

      O let us drive ourselves! For it is free

      And smells of honour and of English things.

      How came we brawling by these bitter springs,

      We of the North? two kindly nations we?

      Though the dice rattles and the clear coin rings,

      Here is no place for living men to be.

      Leave them the gold that worked and whined for it,

      Let them that have no nation anywhere

      Be native here, and fat and full of bread;

      But we, whose sins were human, we will quit

      The land of blood, and leave these vultures there,

      Noiselessly happy, feeding on the dead.

      An Alliance

      This is the weird of a world-old folk,

      That not till the last link breaks,

      Not till the night is blackest,

      The blood of Hengist wakes.

      When the sun is black in heaven,

      The moon as blood above,

      And the earth is full of hatred,

      This people tells its love.

      In change, eclipse, and peril,

      Under the whole world's scorn,

      By blood and death and darkness

      The Saxon peace is sworn;

      That all our fruit be gathered,

      And all our race take hands,

      And the sea be a Saxon river

      That runs through Saxon lands.

      Lo! not in vain we bore him;

      Behold it! not in vain,

      Four centuries' dooms of torture

      Choked in the throat of Spain,

      Ere priest or tyrant triumph

      We know how well we know

      Bone of that bone can whiten,

      Blood of that blood can flow.

      Deep grows the hate of kindred,

      Its roots take hold

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