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Objection is regularly raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is vital and even sacred about a man’s life. The real objection to it will rather be establish in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points which are unimportant. It reveals and asserts and insists on exactly persons things in a man’s life of which the man himself is wholly unconscious; his exact class in society, the circumstances of his ancestry, the place of his present location.
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This is one of Chesterton’s smallest books, but boy is it packed with knowledge. If you are considering a career in literary criticism you would do well to buy this book. At times, because Chesterton can be so deep, it is hard to follow. But there are excellent footnotes in the back of the book. Read it slowly, and savor every moment.
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“GKC” was pushing 30 when TWELVE TYPES was pulled together in book form in 1903. It made his literary reputation among the cognoscenti of England.
His small essays touch on one woman and eleven men. All twelve “types” are well known, although for different skills, including writing, thinking, brooding or kinging it.
Charlotte Bronte wrote of unadorned people with huge, sometimes tortured souls. William Morris establish the 19th Century hideous and tried to reshape it in stained glass and cloth to evoke better bygone ages.
Lord Byron wore many disguises, including pessimism. Robert Louis Stevenson was even more a man of masks. Alexander Pope knew, generously, that people worth satirizing had to have a core of value. He made his witty, wise couplets look simple. But no one who has hackneyed him has been remotely so excellent.
What did Francis of Assisi and Edmund Rostand share? They were fantastic poets, first and foremost. Francis loved life and people more happily than anyone before or since. Rostand’s soldiers dying in dread of the crows that would soon pluck out their eyes cheered for Napoleon one last “Vive l’empereur!.”
That idlest but most despotic of Stuart Kings, Charles II, was a thorough sceptic. He was not just sceptical about this or that. He doubted everything. Even in turning Catholic and taking communion on his deathbed, he might muse, “The wafer might not be God, similarly it might not be a wafer.” Charles’s restoration in 1660 was a revolt “of the debris of human scenery.” Men of the Restoration, weak Epicureans all, were masters of killing time. Privileged Epicureans “make time live.”
Thomas Carlyle believed his message to be right and vital but did not reflect it vital to persuade others. Count Tolstoy saw the simplicity of “mere Christianity” but then tried to codify it in rules. Michelangelo was a friend of the austere Dominican Monk of Florence Savonarola and would gladly have tossed his greatest works into the “bonfire of the vanities” if he thought its flames signaled “the dawn of a younger and wiser world.”
Finally, Sir Walter Scott. He is the eternal king of romance and romance touches the deepest core of human scenery. First impressions are deepest. And boys are therefore right to pay more attention to Bruce’s plume than to his hatreds. Sir Walter tells a tale lovingly. He invites us to sip it like wine and not gulp it down like bitter medicine.
TWELVE TYPES is a book to pull out of our pocket when the world grows too much with us. It is wise, cheering, provocative. It is over a hundred years ancient And don’t we all wish that we could write something half so timely! -OOO-
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5