Literary Giants Literary Catholics

by Joseph Pearce

  10 G. K. ‘s Weekly, 13 April 1923. Back to text.

  11 Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (London: Sheed & Ward, 1944), 228. Back to text.

  12 Anthony Read and David Fisher, Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror (London,1989), 183. Back to text.

  13 Quoted in the Sunday Times, 18 August 1957. Back to text.

  14 Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 540. Back to text.

  15 Louis Aragon, ed., Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War (London, 1937). Back to text.

  Chapter Ten

  1 Joseph Pearce, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002), 230. Back to text.

  Chapter Eleven

  1 Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003). Back to text.

  2 Joseph Pearce, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002), 84. Back to text.

  3 Quoted in Joseph Pearce, Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspirations in an Age of Unbelief (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999), 319. Back to text.

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  1 Roy Campbell, “To a Pet Cobra”, in Selected Poems, ed. Joseph Pearce (London: Saint Austin Press, 2001), 7. Back to text.

  2 I am, of course, aware of the personal reasons for Campbell’s enmity toward the Bloomsbury group and for his “escape” to Provence, namely, his wife’s passionate affair with Vita Sackville-West. Those wishing to know more of this episode in Campbell’s life should see my biography, Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell (London: HarperCollins, 2001). It is, however, my contention that Campbell’s philosophical objections to Bloomsbury are a genuine reflection of his intellectual opposition to the “damp philosophy” of its members and that such objections transcend any personal enmity he might have held against certain individuals. Back to text.

  3 With the possible exception of the “honeymoon” period with his wife in Wales, shortly after their wedding, during which time he wrote The Flaming Terrapin. Back to text.

  4 Roy Campbell, “The Palm”, in Collected Poems (London: The Bodley Head, 1949), 1:50. Back to text.

  5 Roy Campbell, “The Serf”, in Selected Poems, 5. Back to text.

  6 Roy Campbell, “Mithraic Emblems: Mithras Speaks 2”, in Selected Poems, 45. Back to text.

  7 Roy Campbell, “To the Sun”, in Selected Poems, 46. Back to text.

  8 Quoted in Matthew Hoehn, OSB, ed., Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches 1930-1947 (Newark, N.J.: Saint Mary’s Abbey Press, 1947), 104. Back to text.

  9 Quoted in Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide (London: Fount/ HarperCollins, 1996), 25. Back to text.

  10 Alister Kershaw, ed., Salute to Roy Campbell (Francestown, N.H.: Typographeum, 1984), 26. Back to text.

  11 Anna Campbell Lyle, Son of Valour, unpublished manuscript, 111. Back to text.

  12 Roy Campbell, “The Beveridge Plan”, in Selected Poems, 93. Back to text.

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  1 Roy Campbell, “Posada”, in Collected Poems (London: The Bodley Head, 1949), 1:158. Back to text.

  2 Anna Campbell Lyle, Son of Valour, unpublished manuscript, 77. Back to text.

  3 Joseph Pearce, Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell (London: HarperCollins, 2001), 153. Back to text.

  4 Ibid., 153. Back to text.

  5 Ibid. Back to text.

  6 Ibid. Back to text.

  7 Campbell Lyle, Son of Valour, 75. Back to text.

  8 Roy Campbell, Broken Record (London: Boriswood, 1934), 157. Back to text.

  9 Roy Campbell, Light on a Dark Horse (London: Hollis & Carter, 1951), 316-17. Back to text.

  10 Ibid., 317. Back to text.

  11 Quoted in Matthew Hoehn, O.S.B., ed., Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches 1930-1947 (Newark, N.J.: Saint Mary’s Abbey Press, 1947), 104. Back to text.

  12 Teresa Campbell, unpublished memoirs; quoted in Pearce, Bloomsbury and Beyond, 164. Back to text.

  13 Campbell Lyle, Son of Valour, 90. Back to text.

  14 Ibid., 93. Back to text.

  15 In his poem “Toledo, July 1936”. Back to text.

  16 Quoted in Campbell Lyle, Son of Valour, 93. Back to text.

  17 Ibid., 94. Back to text.

  18 Ibid. Back to text.

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  + Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). Back to text.

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  + London: Saint Austin Press, 1999. Back to text.

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  + Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003. Back to text.

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  + An Introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth, by Bradley J. Birzer (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2002). Back to text.

  Chapter Forty-Two

  + Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0-618-33129-8, 400 pp., $26.00. Back to text.

  Chapter Forty-Three

  1 From Tolkien’s Letters. Back to text.

  Chapter Fifty-Five

  + London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Back to text.

  Chapter Fifty-Six

  + Grey Owl Press, P.O. Box 5334, Takoma Park, MD 20913, USA, ISBN 096719010X. Back to text.

  Chapter Fifty-Nine

  1 Valerie Eliot, ed., The Letters of T. S. Eliot (London, 1988), 1:374-75. Back to text.

  2 T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (London, 1960), 168. Back to text.

  3 Valerie Eliot, The Letters of T. S. Eliot, 1:426. Back to text.

  4 G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (London, 1905), 29-30. Back to text.

  5 G. K. Chesterton, Chaucer (London, 1949), 226-27. Back to text.

  6 G. K. Chesterton, “On Dante and Beatrice”, in All Is Grist (Freeport, NY.: 1967), 126. Back to text.

  7 Maurice Baring, Have You Anything to Declare? (London, 1936), 106. Back to text.