tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291879114835297882.post4113695663870356695..comments2023-12-06T03:29:10.742-08:00Comments on The Hilaire Belloc Blog - the official Blog of the Hilaire Belloc Society. : Roderick Blyth comments on the A N Wilson Belloc piece in the Tablet...Hilaire Bellochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039021080426257658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291879114835297882.post-39635114990546272142020-08-12T13:47:21.567-07:002020-08-12T13:47:21.567-07:00Poor A. N . Wilson, still groping in the dark for ...Poor A. N . Wilson, still groping in the dark for solid opinions of himself. I thought he converted once before several years ago or is this his second or third turnaround ? Don Quixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11088216762281699529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291879114835297882.post-5057034649712996612020-07-30T15:42:22.886-07:002020-07-30T15:42:22.886-07:00Feast of Blessed Everard Hanse
30th July, A. D. MM...Feast of Blessed Everard Hanse<br />30th July, A. D. MMXX<br /><br />What a pleasure to read the main essay here in defense of Hilaire Belloc. One can only chuckle to see him on the cover of today's Tablet, and even more at how the Editor of that august purportedly Catholic institution confounds his own starch and snark.<br /><br />I've been enjoying Belloc's writings for more than 25 years now, and a more devoted son of Our Lady I don't believe I know. Nor a finer poet.<br /><br />From paeans to our "Lady, and Queen, and mystery manifold / And very Regent of the untroubled sky, / Whom in a Dream St Hilda did behold, and heard a woodland music passing by, / You shall receive me when the clouds are high with evening, and the sheep attain the fold."<br /><br />. . . To his landmark Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine, Belloc is a master on par with the Bard. Either Bard. Which reminds me, I once recited, nay practically sang, the former poem ex tempore (of course) at an annual Robbie Burns Day dinner in Manhattan, which was well received whether due to the whiskey I know not. <br /><br />As to the third category of the "dialogues," I would suggest En Esto Perpetua for more than honorable mention. Also quite interesting from the perspective of history as well as insightful to the Muslim mentality and nature.<br /><br />O, Hilaire, faithful son of the Church, your like has not been seen on the world stage since you departed. Would that we had today whether in public or in private life, just one such defender of the Faith!<br /><br />Were he alive to defend his friend, GK might say, "On the map of the mind of Belloc the mind of A. N. Wilson, or the Lilliputian ilk at the Tablet, is a dot."<br /><br />In corde Christe,<br /><br />Christopher P. Benischek<br />New York, New YorkChris Benischekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06340441962885848951noreply@blogger.com