Varied Types

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783849650087
Publisher:	Jazzybee Verlag
Publication date:	09/21/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	266 KB

About the Author

English journalist and author, who came of a family of estate-agents, was born in London on the 29th of May 1874. He was educated at St Paul's school, which he left in 1891 with the idea of studying art. But his natural bent was literary, and he devoted himself mainly to cultivating that means of expression, both in prose and verse; he did occasional reviewing, and had some experience in a publisher's office. In 1900, having already produced a volume of clever poems, The Wild Knight, he definitely took to journalism as a career, and became a regular contributor of signed articles to the Liberal journals, the Speaker and Daily News. He established himself from the first as a writer with a distinct personality, combative to a swashbuckling degree, unconventional and dogmatic; and the republication of much of his work in a series of volumes (e.g. Twelve Types, Heretics, Orthodoxy), characterized by much acuteness of criticism, a pungent style, and the capacity of laying down the law with unflagging impetuosity and humour, enhanced his reputation. His powers as a writer are best shown in his studies of Browning (in the "English Men of Letters " series) and of Dickens; but these were only rather more ambitious essays among a medley of characteristic utterances, ranging from fiction (including The Napoleon of Notting Hill) to fugitive verse, and from artistic criticism to discussions of ethics and religion.

Table of Contents

Charlotte Bronte

William Morris And His School

The Optimism Of Byron

Pope And The Art Of Satire

Francis

Rostand

Charles II.

Stevenson

Thomas Carlyle

Tolstoy And The Cult Of Simplicity

Savonarola

The Position Of Sir Walter Scott

Bret Harte

Alfred The Great

Maeterlinck

Ruskin

Queen Victoria

The German Emperor

Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning