Archiv der Kategorie: Biographies (English)

Appreciations and Criticisms of The Works of Charles Dickens – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

This book may not be, Chesterton says, important as a contribution to history, but it is important as a contribution to biography; as a contribution to the character and the career of the man who wrote it, a typical man of his time. That Dickens made no personal historical researches, that he had no special historical learning, that he had not had, in truth, even anything that could be called a good education, all this accentuates not the merit but at least the importance of the book. For here, thinks Mr. Chesterton, may be read in plain popular language, written by a man whose genius for popular … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

William Blake – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. This book, originally part of the ‘Men of Letters’ series, gives a thorough account of his life and creative works.

William Blake

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William Blake.

ISBN: 9783849677978

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

George Bernard Shaw – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Chesterton says that “most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him.” This book gives the author’s critical opinion of Shaw’s work and also of Shaw, the man whose work is an expression of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw.

ISBN: 9783849678883

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

G. F. Watts – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

George Frederic Watts was an English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the “House of Life”, in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language. This is G. K. Chesterton’s biography of G. F. Watts.

G. F. Watts

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G. F. Watts.

ISBN: 9783849678951

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Varied Types – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

In this volume Mr. Chesterton reprints nearly twenty of the ingenious and brilliant papers which have delighted and puzzled the readers of the London Daily News and Speaker. The subjects are all biographical, ranging from Alfred the Great to Bret Harte, but those who have already learnt to admire Mr. Chesterton’s paradoxes will not need to be assured that his method of treatment is not that of Mr. Sidney Lee’s Dictionary.

Varied Types

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Varied Types.

ISBN: 9783849678937

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Robert Browning – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Robert Browning is one of the Englishmen of most indisputable genius whom the nineteenth century has produced. This is Chesterton’s biography of this Victorian poet and playwright.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning.

ISBN: 9783849679330

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox”. Time magazine has observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Twelve Types – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

As far as sheer cleverness goes, Mr. Chesterton Has attracted considerable attention in England. He was a thinker of some power, he had the gift of clear expression, and what he says was not merely readable but stimulating. In ‘Twelve Types’ he passes judgment successively upon the likes as Savonarola and Scott, St. Francis and Tolstoy, all with the same air of infallibility. Boldness, however, is so rare among the writers of today, that Mr. Chesterton’s very recklessness has won him favor among English critics.

Twelve Types

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Twelve Types.

ISBN: 9783849679323

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...