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Contents Include: The Romance of Rhyme Hamlet and the Psych-Analyst The Meaning of Mock Turkey Shakespeare and the Legal Lady On Being an Old Bean The Fear of the Film Wings and the Housemaid The Slavery ...

Contents Include: The Romance of Rhyme Hamlet and the Psych-Analyst The Meaning of Mock Turkey Shakespeare and the Legal Lady On Being an Old Bean The Fear of the Film Wings and the Housemaid The Slavery ...

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This is one of Chesterton's best collections of essays. Among... Read Full Overview

Contents Include: The Romance of Rhyme Hamlet and the Psych-Analyst The Meaning of Mock Turkey Shakespeare and the Legal Lady On Being an Old Bean The Fear of the Film Wings and the Housemaid The Slavery of Free Verse Prohibition and the Press The Mercy of Mr.Arnold Bennett A... Read Full Overview

Contents Include: The Romance of Rhyme Hamlet and the Psych-Analyst The Meaning of Mock Turkey Shakespeare and the Legal Lady On Being an Old Bean The Fear of the Film Wings and the Housemaid The Slavery of Free Verse Prohibition and the Press The Mercy of Mr.Arnold Bennett A... Read Full Overview

The whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake... Read Full Overview

The whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake... Read Full Overview

The whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake... Read Full Overview

The poet in the comic opera, it will be remembered (I hope), claimed for his sthetic authority that "Hey diddle diddle will rank as an idyll, if I pronounce it chaste." In face of a satire which still survives the fashion it satirized, it may require some moral courage seriously... Read Full Overview

The poet in the comic opera, it will be remembered (I hope), claimed for his sthetic authority that "Hey diddle diddle will rank as an idyll, if I pronounce it chaste." In face of a satire which still survives the fashion it satirized, it may require some moral courage seriously... Read Full Overview

The poet in the comic opera, it will be remembered (I hope), claimed for his sthetic authority that "Hey diddle diddle will rank as an idyll, if I pronounce it chaste." In face of a satire which still survives the fashion it satirized, it may require some moral courage seriously... Read Full Overview

As you may suspect, The Neumann Press considers this a great and grand characteristic book in the true traditional spirit of Chesterton. The stories, chapters and notes of the special book range over all sorts of things from lady barristers to cavemen, and from psychoanalysis... Read Full Overview

THE poet in the comic opera, it will be remembered (I hope), claimed for his sthetic authority that "Hey diddle diddle will rank as an idyll, if I pronounce it chaste." In face of a satire which still survives the fashion it satirized, it may require some moral courage seriously... Read Full Overview