Editing G. K. Chesterton (section)

==="Chesterbelloc"===
{{See also|G. K.'s Weekly}}

[[File:Shaw, Belloc e Chesterton.jpg|thumb|[[George Bernard Shaw]], [[Hilaire Belloc]], and G. K. Chesterton]]

Chesterton is often associated with his close friend, the poet and essayist [[Hilaire Belloc]].<ref>Mccarthy, John P. (1982). "The Historical Vision of Chesterbelloc", ''Modern Age'', Vol. XXVI, No. 2, pp.&nbsp;175–182.</ref><ref>McInerny, Ralph. [http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/rmcinerny_chesterbelloc_aug06.asp "Chesterbelloc"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429052646/http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/rmcinerny_chesterbelloc_aug06.asp |date=29 April 2013 }} ''Catholic Dossier'', May/June 1998.</ref> George Bernard Shaw coined the name "Chesterbelloc"<ref>Shaw, George Bernard (1918). [http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1140813740390342.pdf "Belloc and Chesterton"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060911084540/http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1140813740390342.pdf |date=11 September 2006 }} ''The New Age'', South Africa Vol. II, No. 16, pp. 309–311.</ref> for their partnership,<ref>Lynd, Robert (1919). [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924026941678#page/n27/mode/2up "Mr. G. K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc"]. In: ''Old and New Masters''. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., pp. 25–41.</ref> and this stuck. Though they were very different men, they shared many beliefs;<ref>McInerny, Ralph. [http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-chesterbelloc-thing.html "The Chesterbelloc Thing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121229110253/http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/the-chesterbelloc-thing.html |date=29 December 2012 }}, ''The Catholic Thing'', 30 September 2008.</ref> in 1922, Chesterton joined Belloc in the Catholic faith, and both voiced criticisms of capitalism and socialism.<ref>Wells, H. G. (1908). [http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1140813732859166.pdf "About Chesterton and Belloc"], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060911090920/http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1140813732859166.pdf |date=11 September 2006 }} ''The New Age'', South Africa Vol. II, No. 11, pp. 209–210 (Rep. in ''Social Forces in England and America'', 1914).</ref> They instead espoused a third way: [[distributism]].<ref>"Belloc and the Distributists", ''The American Review'', November 1933.</ref> ''[[G. K.'s Weekly|G.&nbsp;K.'s Weekly]]'', which occupied much of Chesterton's energy in the last 15 years of his life, was the successor to Belloc's ''[[New Witness]]'', taken over from [[Cecil Chesterton]], Gilbert's brother, who died in World War I.

In his book ''On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters'', Belloc wrote that "Everything he wrote upon any one of the great English literary names was of the first quality.  He summed up any one pen (that of [[Jane Austen]], for instance) in exact sentences; sometimes in a single sentence, after a fashion which no one else has approached.  He stood quite by himself in this department. He understood the very minds (to take the two most famous names) of [[William Makepeace Thackeray|Thackeray]] and of [[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]. He understood and presented [[George Meredith|Meredith]]. He understood the supremacy in [[John Milton|Milton]]. He understood [[Alexander Pope|Pope]]. He understood the great [[John Dryden|Dryden]]. He was not swamped as nearly all his contemporaries were by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], wherein they drown as in a vast sea – for that is what Shakespeare is. Gilbert Chesterton continued to understand the youngest and latest comers as he understood the forefathers in our great corpus of English verse and prose."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Belloc |first=Hilaire |url=http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/Belloc-essay.txt |title=On the Place of Chesterton in English Letters |date=1940 |publisher=Sheed & Ward |location=London |access-date=19 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217124223/http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/Belloc-essay.txt |archive-date=17 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>