chesterton. life and work. miscelaneous
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Life and works of Chesterton.TRANSCRIPT
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
1900 – 1936
100 booksHe wrote on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction
HIS LIFE29 MAY 1874
Campden Hill in
KensigntonLondon
His childhood
Memory problems Clumsy
Developmental Dyspraxia
Physical appeareance
•standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93)•weighting around 21 stone (130) •Chesterton wore a cape and a crumpled hat, with a swordstick in hand, and a cigar hanging out of his mouth
Chesterton: “ Look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England". Shaw retorted,:“Look at you, anyone
would think you have caused it".
HIS ADOLESCENCE
SCKEPTICISM AND DEPRESSION
DIABOLISM AND THE OCULT
Slade School of Art
Department of University
College London
1896 London publisher Redway, and T. Fisher Unwin
St. Paul School
1901- Frances Blogg
She helped him to pull
himself out of his spiritual
crisis
In 1909 he
moved to
Beaconsfield with
his wife
How Far Is It To Bethlehem? – Frances Chesterton ( 1917)“How far is it to Bethlehem?Not very far.Shall we find the stable roomLit by a star?
Can we see the little Child?Is He within?If we lift the wooden latchMay we go in?May we stroke the creatures thereOx, ass, or sheep?May we peep like them and seeJesus asleep?
May we stroke the creatures thereOx, ass, or sheep?May we peep like them and seeJesus asleep
If we touch His tiny handWill He awake?Will He know we’ve come so farJust for His sake? (…)”
VIDEO
His ideas Chesterton had no
difficulty standing up for what he believed.
A man of strong opinions and
enormously talented at defending them
Chesterton explored the evils of racism,
euthanasia and abortion
Leader of the Distributist movement promoting the idea that private property
should be divided into smallest possible freeholds
and then distributed throughout society.
Distributism
Chesterton died of congestive heart failure in 14 June
1936 at his home in Beaconsfield
Dale Ahlquist
AMERICAN CHESTERTON SOCIETY
He explores the life and work of the great 20th Century English writer
INFLUENCESCHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens, Chesterton’s 1906
biography of the great Victorian novelist, was
responsible for sparking a revival of interest in
Dickens’ works
OTHERSThomas AquinasRobert BrowningGeorge MacDonaldHilaire BellocWalter Pater
INFLUENCED
GEORGE ORWELL
Orwell’s first work ever to be published in the English language was an article that Chesterton , as editor of his own paper G.K.’s Weekly, published in 1928.
ORSON WELLES
A great admirer of Chesterton's
writings
In 1938 produced a radio dramatization of GKC's novel The
Man Who Was Thursday
RAY BRADBURYBradbury described
Chesterton as one of his
literary heroes.
Wrote a long story-poem about
his heroes, mentioning
Chesterton in the title itself,
entitled: "The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever
Orient Express"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was a GKC fan as well
“I want to be one of the new school of
American novelists — the Wells- Shaw-
Chesterton-Mackenzie
combination” (Scott Fitzgerald)
Ernest Hemingway
He paid tribute to Chesterton through two characters in
the short story "The Three-Day Blow",
which appeared in
his book In Our Time.
OTHERSAgatha Christie
Alfred Hitchcock
J.K. Rowling
His works
NOVELS The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare.The Ball and the CrossManaliveThe Flying Inn The Return of Don QuixoteBasil Howe (1894)
SHORT STORIES
•Tales of the Long Bow•The Perishing of the Pendragons •Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories•The Club of Queer Trades
Plays
•MAGIC: A Fantastic Comedy in a Prelude and Three Acts (1913)
•The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (1927)
•The Surprise (1952)
The Turkey and the Turk
NON -FICTION
•Eugenics and other evils (1917)•The Everlasting Man (1925)•Heretics•Orthodoxy•a Short History of England
BIOGRAPHIES
•St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)•William Blake •Charles Dickens (1906)•Autobiography (Chesterton) (1936) •George Bernard Shaw (1910)
POETRY
• The wild Knight and Other poems (1900)• The Ballad of the White Horse (1911)• Poems(1915)• Wine, Water and Song(1915)• The Ballad of St Barbara and Other Poems (1922)•The Queen Of Seven Swords
ESSAYS
•As I Was Saying (1936) •Generally Speaking (1928)•The Glass Walking-Stick •Come to Think of It (1930)•The Common Man (1950)
FATHER BROWN
FACTS Father Brown is a fictional character
created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.
Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.
CHARACTER Father Brown is a short, stumpy Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil.
He is characteristically humble, and is usually rather quiet; when he does talk, he almost always says something profound.
INTERPRETATIONS AND CRITISCISM
Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world.
COMPILATION BOOKSThe innocence of Father Brown (1911)The wisdom of Father Brown (1914)The incredulity of Father Brown (1926)The secret of Father Brown (1927)The scandal of Father Brown (1935)
FATHER BROWN – 2013 TV SERIES
Father Brown is a British television period drama which began airing on BBC One on 14 January 2013.
The series is based on the character of Father Brown created by G. K. Chesterton, using new stories written for the program.
It features Mark Williams as the eponymous crime solving Roman Catholic priest.
SOURCES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjfwYwFK
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