The early twentieth-century English—and latterly Roman Catholic—writer and lecturer G. K. Chesterton was one of the most original, and by far the wittiest, of the religious dissidents from the liberal imagination. Dissatisfied with a merely parliamentary model of life, he put together a potent and charming mix of neomedievalism and Catholic nostalgia and described a purer world of heightened numinous feeling than that of the materialism he saw all around him in Edwardian England.
