Wine Water and Song - Poetry by G.K. Chesterton

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1. The Englishman
2. Wine and Water
3. The Song Against Grocers
4. The Rolling English Road
5. The Quoodle
6. Pioneers, Oh Pioneers
7. The Logical Vegetarian
8. The Saracen's Head
9. The Good Rich Man
10. The Song Against Songs
11. Me Heart
12. Song of the Oak
13. The Road to Roundabout
14. The Song of the Strange Ascetic
15. The Song of Right and Wrong
16. Who Goes Home?

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."

Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[5] and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."[4] Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.

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