by Belloc · Cluster: Familiar Essay · Paradox · The Common Man
Abstract
A collection of Belloc’s familiar essays and sketches (reprinted from the Westminster Gazette, Clarion and others), ranging from a mock plea for a ‘simpler drama’ in blank verse to meditations on notebooks, bridges, immortality, sacramental things, and the empire-builder. The pieces mix whimsy, satire of modern life, and Catholic reflection on permanence and the ordinary man.
Capitoli / Chapters
- DEDICATION
- A PLEA FOR THE SIMPLER DRAMA
- THE CRISIS
- ON A NOTEBOOK
- “AN EARNEST MEMBER OF THE FOLD”
- ON UNKNOWN PEOPLE
- HIS CHARACTER
- ON THRUPPENNY BITS
- ON THE HOTEL AT PALMA AND A PROPOSED GUIDE-BOOK
- ULYSSES,
- THE DEATH OF WANDERING PETER
- THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
- A NORFOLK MAN
- LETTER OF ADVICE AND APOLOGY TO A YOUNG BURGLAR
Readability (prose)-25.1 Flesch ease35.7 FK grade38.9 Fog21% complex76.3 words/sent
Connections
Forms & Genres: Essay, Satire, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Critique of Progress, Common Man, Faith, Immortality of the Soul, Nature, Satire of Society, Tradition Motifs: Home, Road, River Historical References: Darwinism Settings: England, Rural England Topoi: Open Road Homecoming