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Chesterton   /tʃˈɛstərtən/   Listen
Chesterton

noun
1.
Conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936).  Synonyms: G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton.





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"Chesterton" Quotes from Famous Books



... expressed as in the following epigram, which I believe appeared in the Chicago Tribune: "Free verse is a form of theme unworthy of pure prose embodiment developed by a person incapable of pure poetic expression." Not at all bad; but as some one said of G. K. Chesterton, it would be unfair to apply to wit the test of truth. It is better to remember Coleridge's remark on poetry: "The opposite of poetry is not prose but science; the opposite of prose is not poetry but verse." Perhaps ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps


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