The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses

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The collection of poems includes: To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, ’19; The Ballad of St. Barbara; Elegy in a Country Churchyard; The Sword of Surprise; A Wedding in War-time; The Mystery; ‘”The Myth of Arthur”; The Old Song; The Trinkets; The Philanthropist; On the Downs; The Red Sea; For a War Memorial; Memory; The English Graves; Nightmare; A Second Childhood; Mediævalism; Poland; The Hunting of the Dragon; Sonnet; Fantasia; A Christmas Carol; To Captain Fryatt; For Four Guilds: The Glass-Stainers, The Bridge-Builders, The Stone-Masons, The Bell-Ringers; The Convert; Songs of Education: History, Geography, For the Crêche, Citizenship, The Higher Mathematics, Hygiene.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, mostly known as G. K. Chesterton, was an author, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. He is frequently called as the “prince of paradox”. Time magazine has noticed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out.”

G. K. Chesterton is best known for his story bound detective priest Father Brown, and for his coherent defenses. Even most of those who oppose with him have observed the massive interest of his works such as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. He customarily denote himself as an “orthodox” Christian, and drew closer to classify this stance all the more with Catholicism, finally converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton’s “friendly enemy” in accordance to Time, stated of him, “He was a man of colossal genius.” Biographers have recognized him as a follower to some Victorian writers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.
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