The Poet and the Lunatics

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ Reyburn, Duncan (2017). Seeing Things as They Are: G.K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning. The Lutterworth Press. p. 205. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Van Dover, J.K. (2019). The Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s. McFarland. p. 62. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  3. ↑ Ahlquist, Dale. "Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics". Chesterton University. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  4. 1 2 Tibbetts, John C. (2021). The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques. McFarland. p. 73. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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