[ [9] The Four Men, p. 56.
[ [10] T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York), p. 42.
[ [11] Belloc’s “Poet,” as indicated, is in the Platonic conception of poetry: poetry as the intimation of the “divine.” What a contemporary critic would consider essential to a poet, keen sensibility, is found in Belloc’s “Sailor.”
[ [12] “The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves,” Hills and the Sea,
pp. 300-1.
[ [13] Path to Rome, p. 118.
[ [14] “The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves,” Hills and the Sea, p. 311.
[ [15] Ibid., p. 311.
[ [16] Hugh Kenner, Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, New York, 1947), passim.
[ [17] Elizabethan Commentary, p. 170.
[ [18] Towns of Destiny, p. 235.