Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of Gkc, 1874-1908

by William Oddie

Book Overview

On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that 'Chesterton's social and economic ideas were the ideas for his time that were fundamentally Christian and Catholic'. But how did he come by these ideas? Eliot noted that Chesterton attached 'significance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199551650
• ISBN13: 9780199551651
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.6"