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Thread #83258 Message #1529934
Posted By: GUEST,Joe_F
28-Jul-05 - 10:09 AM
Thread Name: Happy! - July 27 (Hilaire Belloc)
Subject: RE: Happy! - July 27 (Hilaire Belloc)
The "Beasts" books are included, with much else, in _Cautionary Verses_. Profusely illustrated. ObSongs: Do you suppose any of his verses have been set to music?
Yes, he was a reactionary, an antisemite, etc.; but he was a man of independent mind, and it is a waste of time to try to hate him %^). So also with his friend G. K. Chesterton, and with Kipling.