{"id":38946,"date":"2018-12-04T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38946"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:40:11","slug":"lecture-109-therefore-i-bring-these-rhymes-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-109-therefore-i-bring-these-rhymes-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 109: Therefore I Bring These Rhymes to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/shop\/vol-x-part-iii\/\"><i>Collected Works, Volume 10<\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i>Collected Poetry Part 3<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The release of this volume should have been met with a flourish of trumpets in every literary journal in the\u00a0world. It completed the collection of G.K. Chesterton&#8217;s poetry, three volumes which totaled over 1500 pages of poems, half of which almost no one had ever seen since they were first published in a long out-of-print paper or scribbled in a presentation copy\u00a0of a book or sent in a letter and then folded and tucked away in a dusty drawer or, best of all, from a page of his early notebooks which had only been seen by Chesterton himself. It was a prodigious accomplishment, thanks to the scholarship and detective\u00a0work of Denis Conlon and Aidan Mackey. Instead it went unnoticed. Forgive the ignorant fools who are the editors of those rags, for they know not what they do. Meanwhile, shame on the snobs who know better.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The third of the three parts of \u201cVolume 10\u201d of\u00a0the Collected Works is, like its predecessors, a deep delight from the absurdity of the illustrated \u201cBroad-minded Child&#8217;s Religious and Philosophical Alphabet\u201d to the mysticism of \u201cThe Elevation,\u201d describing that point in the Mass where the priest raises the consecrated host:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lover of all men love, whose giant loving<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Is so enlarged to love all little things;<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy is he that to thine altar clings<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We forget that Chesterton was in demand as a poet as much as essayist and a speaker, and most of his poems appeared in newspapers and magazines before they went on either to be collected (or unfortunately forgotten). \u201cThe March of the Black Mountain\u201d was written for the\u00a0<i>Daily News\u00a0<\/i>as Chesterton was wading into the deeper waters of political controversy and reminding the world that daily decisions are not for the day alone:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What will there be to remember<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of us in the days to be?<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whose faith was a trodden ember<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And even our doubts not free. . .<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u201cWhen I Came Back to\u00a0Fleet Street,\u201d the journalist-poet who had left London for Beaconsfield reveals his attachment to the country but his attraction to the city:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had been long in meadows<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And the trees took hold of me,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And the still towns in the beech-woods<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Where\u00a0men were meant to be.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But old things held; the laughter<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The long unnatural night,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And all the truth they talk in hell,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And all the lies they write.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The volume includes some early poems that reveal that Chesterton is monotheistic without yet being\u00a0Christian, the very process he will describe all societies going through in\u00a0<i>The Everlasting Man<\/i>. Then, as his discovers Christ, we see a longing first for the baby in a manger, then the craftsman, then the teller of parables, and then the crucified one. (\u201cBut he was more than a god\u2014he died.\u201d) Ultimately, the poet reaches the Catholic Church, beautifully describing the moment in \u201cThe Convert.\u201d Along the way is the complete version of the epic\u00a0<i>Ballad of the White Horse<\/i>, with Denis Conlon&#8217;s insightful notes,\u00a0which supplement any other version anywhere.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For Chesterton, every event is an occasion for poetry. He will take a line from a newspaper article or a critical essay and write a poem in response to it. The irony is that in following a poetic form, he can sometimes and somehow speak more freely than the prose writer who is not constrained by it.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our middle class hold tea-cups when they call,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our upper classes dine in evening dress,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our lower classes never dine at all;<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is the secret of our\u00a0happiness.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His parodies surpass their original objects, as in his stinging \u201cReplies to the Poets,\u201d his hilarious \u201cTo a Modern Poet,\u201d and the absolutely brilliant variations on Old King Cole in the styles of Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Yeats, and\u00a0Swinburne.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His \u201cthrowaway\u201d poems, personal inscriptions in books or lines dashed off on hotel stationary, the scattered stuff that has been recovered only through great efforts\u2014these have proven to be permanent additions to the corpus. Most are\u00a0witty lines betraying genuine affection, as in this unfinished ballade, written as an apology for breaking a wine-glass at a dinner:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prince, when I took your goblet tall,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And smashed it with inebriate care,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I knew not how from Rome and Gaul<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0gained it; I was unaware<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It stood by Charlemagne&#8217;s great chair<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And served St Peter at High Mass<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>. . . I&#8217;m sorry if the thing was rare,<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like the noise of breaking glass.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But some move beyond that. 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