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G.K. Chesterton
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Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera. Gilbert Keith Chesterton smiling, wearing a dark hat, glasses with a monocle, and a suit with an overcoat and scarf. G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton chalk drawing Illustration by G.K. Chesterton for the clerihew “Cervantes” by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines

G.K. Chesterton: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - Gilbert K. Chesterton. Oct 09, 2026
Add new Web site: Official Site of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Jul 15, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 10, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 25, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC Religion and Ethics - The Lady with the Torn Hair: G.K. Chesterton on the Nativity. Jan 10, 2026
Add new Web site: C.S. Lewis Institute - Profiles in Faith: G.K. Chesterton. Aug 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - G. K. Chesterton. Apr 16, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Great Lives - GK Chesterton. Jan 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Official Site of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Jul 19, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - G.K. Chesterton: Servant of God. Jan 16, 2024
Add new Web site: All Poetry - Biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: HyperPhysics - G. K. Chesterton. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Christianity.com - 10 Things You Need to Know about G.K. Chesterton. May 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Christianity Today - G. K. Chesterton. Feb 14, 2023
Link added. Jan 10, 2023
Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Biography of G. K. Chesterton. Apr 25, 2022
Added The Thing (1929). Nov 06, 2015
Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Apr 15, 2015
Add new Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Apr 15, 2015
Add new Web site: The Marion E. Wade Center - Biography of G.K. Chesterton. Dec 15, 2013
Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Gilbert K. Chesterton. Dec 13, 2013
Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of G. K. Chesterton. Apr 08, 2013
Added photograph. Mar 31, 2011
Article revised and updated. Jun 09, 2008
Added new Web site: Academia - Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Nov 02, 2007
Added new Web site: Official Site of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Jul 18, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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