Last fall I began to think of writing a fantasy novel. This was a dubious idea for two reasons. One, I had read little fantasy, and most of that was Tolkien and Lewis. And two, the closest I had come in all my life to writing fantasy was a grade-school story about a talking bird…
Category: Culture
The Secret People
G. K. Chesterton was a prolific author of almost kind every – poetry, novels, apologetics, journalism. He wrote a poem called “The Secret People”, rich in historical allusions. Below is the poem, with some explanation and analysis. An uninterrupted version of the poem can be found here. The Secret People by G. K. Chesterton Smile…