Poetry collection

Poems

Chesterton’s collected verse includes “Lepanto,” a thunderous imaginative retelling of the battle and its Catholic memory.

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The collection ranges across war, love, religion, public life, and nonsense. Auxesis Library begins with “Lepanto,” preserving the poem as literature while the Rosary history dossier supplies a separate account of the event and its ecclesial reception.

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    Lepanto · Opening movementDon John is going to the warG. K. Chesterton, “Lepanto,” in Poems (John Lane, 1916)