Gilbert Keith Chesterton (London, 1874 - Beaconsfield, 1936)
British writer. Cultivated, among other genres, the essay, narrative, biography, poetry, journalism and travel book. ►
Gilbert Keith Chestertonattended St. Paul's School, which was then at Hammersmith. He was an introverted child who strove time to learn. Her worried parents took him to a doctor, who said the boy was the largest and most sensitive brain he has seen. The boy, said the doctor, would become "a genius or a idiot. " His teachers were equally perplexed about the future of his corpulent and slovenly disciple shrill voice, often talking to himself and others laughed for no apparent reason. Few
warned that what he did was recite long passages from Dickens and Shakespeare learned by rote, and that his smile was the first indication of their keen sense of the ridiculous, that whole nations would soon make him laugh
John Ennis
Chesterton man
Reader's Digest (May 1975)
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