The Poet and the Lunatics
The Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale is a 1929 work by G. K. Chesterton. It consists of a series of short stories about Gabriel Gale, who is a poet and painter. Every story involves another character who is mad in some way. The work is sometimes called a novel,[1] and usually categorized as detective fiction.[2][3]
The stories were first published in Nash's Magazine in 1921.[4] John C. Tibbetts describes them as "among Chesterton's most evocative twilight tales."[4]
References
- ^ Reyburn, Duncan (2017). Seeing Things as They Are: G.K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning. The Lutterworth Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780718846008. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ Van Dover, J.K. (2019). The Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s. McFarland. p. 62. ISBN 9781476677491. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ Ahlquist, Dale (14 December 2010). "Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics". Chesterton University. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ a b Tibbetts, John C. (2021). The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques. McFarland. p. 73. ISBN 9781476643977. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
External links
- The Poet and the Lunatics, complete text
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