Further Reading
- "Bards of Passion and of Mirth," The New York Times Book Review (March 25, 1923): 6. (Positively reviews Chesterton's The Ballad of St Barbara, describing it as a poem in “which passionately lofty thought is given expression through passionately beautiful verse.”)
- Benson, James D., and Barron Brainerd, "Chesterton's Parodies of Swinburne and Yeats: A Lexical Approach," Literary and Linguistic Computing 3, No. 4 (1988): 226-31. (Tabulates words from genuine poetry by Swinburne and Yeats to prove that Chesterton's parodies of these two authors works are successful imitations.)
- Carter, G. Emmett Cardinal, "Homily for the Mass of the Anniversary of the Death of G. K. Chesterton," The Chesterton Review XII, No. 4 (November 1986): 439-43. (Draws upon several of Chesterton's poems in his tribute to Chesterton, whom he describes as a “holy lay person.”)
- Derus, David L., "Chesterton and W. B. Yeats: Vision, System and Rhetoric," The Chesterton Review II, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1976): 197-214. (Compares Yeats and Chesterton in their search for a personal, more inspiring, religion)
- MacGregor, Geddes, "Chesterton as Satirist," The Chesterton Review XVI, No. 2 (May 1990): 29-36. (Examines Chesterton's attacks on political opportunism.)
- Mackey, Aidan, "The Poetry and the Publishers: A Review of the Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton," The Chesterton Review VII, No. 4 (November 1981): 294-306. (Singles out several poems by Chesterton that are unfamiliar to most readers and argues that they should be included in anthologies as examples of his best work.)
- Martin, John, "Some Theological Implications of Chesterton's Style," The Chesterton Review V, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1978-79): 121-37. (Examines both the morally positive and morally negative aspects of Chesterton's interpretation of his adopted religion, Catholicism.)
- Purves, Mary, "Some Uncollected Chesterton Poems," The Chesterton Review IX, No. 4 (November 1983): 308-13. (Provides both typed and manuscript versions of never-before published poems by Chesterton.)
- Routley, Erik, "The Fairy Tale and the Secret," The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story, pp. 104–16. Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1972. (Suggests that Chesterton used his “Father Brown” stories to expose erroneous thinking in popular culture.)
- Routley, Erik, "The Mystery of Iniquity," The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story, pp. 89–103. Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1972. (Discusses Chesterton's use of his own stories to provide a ground for the exploration of morality.)
- Thomas, L. Garnet, "Mysticism in The Ballad of the White Horse," The Chesterton Review VI, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1979-80): 205-11. (Describes The Ballad of the White Horse as visionary in terms of religion and as a “treasure-house of wisdom.”)
- Whigham, Peter, "The Road Not Taken," The Chesterton Review XI, No. 3 (August 1985): 307-19. (Asserts that for Chesterton, poetry was secondary to religious faith, and was thus an instrument for expressing this faith rather than an end in itself.)
- White, Gertrude M., "True Words in Jest: The Light Verse of Chesterton and Belloc," The Chesterton Review VI, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1979-80): 1-26. (Describes Chesterton as one of the finest writers of light verse of all time, noting in particular his flair for imagery, metaphor, and parallelism.)
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