Selected Essays
1936
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In these essays the reader meets Belloc in all his diversity of mood and subject. They range from boyish exuberance to solemn meditation; from that irrepressible gaiety which leaves the impression of a man with a richly stored mind thinking aloud, to the majestic prose in which he sets to music his response to a profound emotion. Here is the poet's eye for a landscape, the easily kindled imagination which could bring the dead past to life, the wit and wisdom of one who lived ardently and knew the bitterness as well as the joys of this world.
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Author
Hilaire Belloc
Author · 44 books
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters, and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G.K. Chesterton. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man.
