Philadelphia Chesterton Society
  • Home
  • About
  • Calendar
    • Submit an Event
    • Upload an Event Flier
  • Contact
    • What Does GKC Mean to You?
  • Mailing List
  • Newsletter Archive
  • Home
  • About
  • Calendar
    • Submit an Event
    • Upload an Event Flier
  • Contact
    • What Does GKC Mean to You?
  • Mailing List
  • Newsletter Archive
Search

Lepanto!

4/22/2015

1 Comment

 

"Swords about the Cross!"

Join us as we discuss Chesterton's masterpiece, Lepanto.  See below to RSVP.
Click here to purchase an annotated edition of the poem.
Click here to read it online.
     The portentous revolution of the fourth and fifth centuries, whereby Christendom was established, is never seen in its magnitude, nor even in its character. The next most important event, the disruption of Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, is not grasped, in modern England, because the Catholic Church, which was the matter of the tragedy, is not known there. The Catholic Culture is to the Englishman of to-day a foreign country.
     From these inhibitions Gilbert Chesterton in a large measure freed himself. By right instinct and speech with the right men he guessed what Europe had been and filled in with right proportion the pitifully faint and imperfect (but above all false) outline which our modern books give to young men upon the past.
     Thus some of his finest verse was historical and the history therein was just, with a particular appreciation of the defence of Christendom against the barbarian and the Mahommedan. No one else but Gilbert Chesterton could have written such a poem as Lepanto in English, and no one has attempted it; while the Ballad of the White Horse is an extension of the same theme.


--- Hilaire Belloc

Read More
1 Comment

    About

    We aim to provide fellowship and fun in the Philadelphia area as we gather and honor the personal and literary legacy of G.K. Chesterton.

    Links of Interest

    American Chesterton Society
    Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    American Chesterton Society
    Chesterton Schools Network
    Picture
    The Distributist Review
    Uncommon Sense Podcast
    The Four Men Feast
    Joe Grabowski's Website

    Post Categories

    All
    A.C.S. News
    Chesterton Academy
    Distributism
    Education
    Events
    Meetings
    Pictures
    Video

    Archives

    March 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    October 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014

    RSS Feed

HOME

  • Home
  • About
  • Calendar
    • Submit an Event
    • Upload an Event Flier
  • Contact
    • What Does GKC Mean to You?
  • Mailing List
  • Newsletter Archive