Subjects: PR, English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism, I
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""I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit."" In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly comments ""it is an art in which women are quite beyond controversy"". Equally uncompromising about poets and poetry he does not hesitate to call Tennyson ""a provincial Virgil"". This book is an important landmark in our understanding of an age which produced some of Britain's most wi.
A Chesterton Calendar Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C.'...
Alarms and Discursions
All Things Considered
A Miscellany of Men
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
A Short History of England
Charles Dickens: A critical study
Divorce versus Democracy
Eugenics and Other Evils
Fancies Versus Fads
George Bernard Shaw
G. F. Watts
Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen
Heretics
Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Irish Impressions
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London
Lord Kitchener
Magic A Fantastic Comedy
Manalive
O Napoleão de Notting Hill
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy
Poems
Robert Browning
St. Francis of Assisi
Tales of the Long Bow
The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Ball and the Cross
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Club of Queer Trades
The Crimes of England
The Defendant
The Everlasting Man
The Flying Inn
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The New Jerusalem
The secret of Father Brown
The Superstition of Divorce
The Trees of Pride
The trial of John Jasper for the murder of Edwin Drood
The Uses of Diversity: A book of essays
The Victorian Age in Literature
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
The Wisdom of Father Brown
Tremendous Trifles
Twelve Types
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
Varied Types
What I Saw in America
What's Wrong with the World
William Blake
Wine, Water, and Song