The Poet and the Lunatics

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]

References

1. Reyburn, Duncan (2017). Seeing Things as They Are: G.K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning. The Lutterworth Press. p. 205. ISBN 9780718846008. 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. ISBN 9781476677491. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
3. Ahlquist, Dale (14 December 2010). "Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics". Chesterton University. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
4. Tibbetts, John C. (2021). The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques. McFarland. p. 73. ISBN 9781476643977. Retrieved 26 April 2022.

External links

• The Poet and the Lunatics, complete text