Atlantic Magazine | March 2012
By Christopher Hitchens
PROFESSOR KER’S SPIRITED and double-barreled attempt at a rehabilitation of his cherished subject is enjoyable in its own right, and takes in such matters as Chesterton’s dialectical genius for paradox, the authority of the Father Brown stories in the detective genre, and the salience of Charles Dickens in the English canonical one. But for him to show that his hero was the protagonist of a superior form of English democratic virtue, Ker would have to meet me where we are at agreement: on the high quality of Chesterton’s poems.
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Do you know something? You're so anglo-saxon in your coverage that you forget the wide audience Hitchens had outside the United States and England. Hitchens was followed throughout Europe, there are many signs of that. It would be nice if you could see that.
feel free to share some links I'd say
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Thanks for maintaining the website and allowing continued access to your Hitchens archives.
Mary
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