{"id":38985,"date":"2018-12-04T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38985"},"modified":"2018-12-05T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:24:59","slug":"lecture-126-visions-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-126-visions-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 126: Visions of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>GKC as MC IV: Introductions to Poetry, Plays and Novels<\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>G.K. Chesterton said that publishers do not deny that they are publishers except when there are poets lurking about.\u00a0But publishers were willing to publish even unpublished poets if they could get G.K. Chesterton to write an introduction to their work. One of the young poets he did this for was Darrell Figgis, who broke into print in 1909 with a volume of poems called\u00a0<i>A\u00a0<\/i><i>Vision of Life<\/i>. Figgis was a fascinating character. A close companion of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, he always carried a copy of\u00a0<i>The Man Who Was Thursday<\/i>. Tragically, he lost his life, and his vision of life, not at the hands of English enemies but at his own hands.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The introduction to Figgis&#8217; first book would be one of the centerpieces of Chesterton&#8217;s uncollected prefaces treating works of literature. The authors he deals with fall into three groups: Classics, such as Burns, Carlyle, Thackeray, Dickens, Gorky, and the immortal unknown poet who composed the Song of Roland; Middling writers and poets of some note, including Theodore Maynard, Saki, and Leonard Merrick; and people you&#8217;ve never heard of, such as G. Laurence Groom,\u00a0Sybil\u00a0Bristowe, Philip\u00a0Macer-Wright, L. J.\u00a0McQuilland, Vivienne\u00a0Dayrell, and\u00a0Ferdynand\u00a0Goetel.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We should also mention E.W. Fordham, whom you may not know, unless you know that he was a member of the Junior Debating Club, and a life-long friend of Chesterton&#8217;s. His\u00a0<i>Songs of th<\/i><i>e Specials<\/i>\u00a0refers to the fact that he was a Special Constable. Chesterton, who was elected against his will to be the Parish Constable of Beaconsfield says he is writing the introduction only because it represents some sort of symmetry. However, \u201cSymmetry,\u00a0save in the spherical sense, is hardly my strongpoint.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And there is Douglas\u00a0Ainslee, for whose\u00a0<i>Chosen Poems<\/i>\u00a0GKC contributed an introduction. Significant probably for only one reason. The book was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, the only pairing on record of G.K. Chesterton and Virginia Woolf.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In his dazzling piece on the great Scottish poet Burns, Chesterton writes: \u201cPuritanism is a disguise that did not really fit the Scottish temperament; and that fact, when once understood, explains a large number of curious facts in Scottish history; and not least the rather intoxicated idolatry that has surrounded Robert Burns.\u201d It was some sort of \u201cqueer historical accident\u201d that Puritanism happened to linger on obstinately in Scotland. \u201cAlthough it was obstinate, and in that sense rooted it was never quite native. No Scottish Puritan could possibly have been the Scottish Poet.\u201d The paradox is that \u201can unconventional Scotsman has become the hero of conventional Scotsmen.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In reference to Thackeray,\u00a0renown\u00a0for his masterpiece\u00a0<i>Vanity Fair<\/i>, Chesterton reflectively asks:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich of us has his wish in this world, or, having it, is satisfied?\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saki, the pen name for H.H. Munro, had passed away by the time his final collection of short stories appeared, but there was a particular reason why Chesterton had been asked to write the introduction. The title story \u201cThe Toys of Peace\u201d was actually based on a rather flippant suggestion once made by Chesterton that pacifists would give children little\u00a0tin figures of politicians to play with instead of soldiers.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While he wrote several introductions to help boost the budding careers of young writers, in the case of Leonard Merrick, he was brought in to help revive the career of flagging writer. A\u00a0publisher re-issued\u00a0all of Merrick&#8217;s novels with introductions by major authors, and Chesterton was asked to do\u00a0<i>The House of Lynch<\/i>. Most of his novels were light comedy, but\u00a0<i>The House of Lynch<\/i>\u00a0was a more serious affair, tinged with tragedy, and, well, even\u00a0Chesterton couldn&#8217;t breathe life into the corpse.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of corpses, in his intro to\u00a0<i>A Century of Detective Stories<\/i>, Chesterton explains that authors of detective fiction are divided into two types: cut-throats and poisoners:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cutthroats\u00a0among us are those who, realizing that the murder story must cut short the life, decide also to cut the story short. It is their pride as artists to deal in daggers; and startle the unfortunate reader with the stab of the short story. Those in our little guild, however who prefer to live the more learned and laborious life of a poisoner, are those authors who prolong the agony of anticipation or bewilderment in the reader through a long series of chapters, leaving the reader writhing on a sick-bed of baffled curiosity, as it were for weeks on end.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He pays obligatory homage to Sherlock Holmes, but saves his greatest tribute for Dupin, the creation of Edgar Allen Poe, who introduced the first detective story, \u201cThe Purloined Letter,\u201d which Chesterton calls \u201ca perfect artistic unity.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This collection would also include plays, such as\u00a0<i>Christiana and Her Children<\/i>, based on an episode from Bunyan\u2019s\u00a0<i>Pilgrim\u2019s Progress,\u00a0<\/i>a Polish play\u00a0<i>The Un-Divine Comedy,\u00a0<\/i>by Zygmunt Krasinski, and\u00a0<i>The Betrayal,\u00a0<\/i>a Passion drama covering the two trials of Christ, by Father Geoffrey Dowsett. 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