by Belloc · Cluster: Verse · Faith · Nature
Abstract
Belloc’s collected poetry, gathering his sonnets alongside lyrical, didactic and grotesque pieces, drinking songs, ballades and religious verse. Recurrent notes are the Catholic faith, the South Country and Sussex, comradeship over wine, mortality and the open road.
Capitoli / Chapters
- Sonnets
- To Dives
- The South Country
- Our Lord And Our Lady
- A Bivouac
- The Rebel
- An Oracle
- The Death And Last Confession Of Wandering Peter
- Dedication Of A Child’S Book Of Imaginary Tales
- Homage
- Lines To A Don
- The Politician Or The Irish Earldom
- In A Boat
- Auvergnat
- Drinking Dirge
- A Ballad On Sociological Economics
- Tarantella
- The Winged Horse
- Ballade Of The Unanswered Question
- Ballade Of Hell And Of Mrs Roebeck
- Ballade Of The Heresiarchs
- John Swinnerton Phillimore
- Lyrical, Didactic And Grotesque
- The South Country
- The Fanatic
- The Early Morning
- Our Lord And Our Lady
- Courtesy
- The Night
- The Leader
- A Bivouac
- To The Balliol Men Still In Africa
- The Rebel
- The Prophet Lost In The Hills At Evening
- An Oracle
- The Death And Last Confession Of Wandering Peter
- Dedicatory Ode
- Dedication On The Gift Of A Book To A Child
- Dedication Of A Child’S Book Of Imaginary Tales
- Homage
- The Moon’S Funeral
- The Happy Journalist
- Lines To A Don
- Newdigate Poem
- The Yellow Mustard
- The Politician Or The Irish Earldom
- The Loser
- Songs
- The Birds
- In A Boat
- The Ring
- Cuckoo!
- The Little Serving Maid
- Auvergnat
- Drinking Song
- Drinking Dirge
- Envoi
- West Sussex Drinking Song
- A Ballad On Sociological Economics
- Heretics All
- Ha’Nacker Mill
- Tarantella
- The Winged Horse
- Strephon’S Song
- Ballades
- Ballade Of The Unanswered Question
- Ballade To Our Lady Of Czestochowa
- Ballade Of Hell And Of Mrs Roebeck
- Ballade Of Unsuccessful Men
- Ballade Of The Heresiarchs
Connections
Forms & Genres: Sonnet, Poem Sequence, Ballad Ballade, Comic Verse Song, Lyric Themes & Concepts: Faith, Nostalgia, Mortality, Comradeship, Nature, Transience Motifs: Wine and Drink, Road, Hill, Bells, Sea, Prayer, Sea and Voyage Historical References: Catholic Church, Boer War Settings: Rural England, France, Europe Characters: Virgin Mary Archetypes: Pilgrim, Poet as Prophet (2) Topoi: Open Road Homecoming, Carpe Diem, Memento Mori
Also relevant to: Faith · Providence · Divine Love