Poetry · Catholic tradition
The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton. A long narrative poem on King Alfred's Christian stand against the Danes, with the Virgin Mary's counsel at its center; a favorite of Tolkien's generation.
By G. K. Chesterton. 1 edition, with a text you can read on this site.
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- More by G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Was Thursday, Saint Francis of Assisi, Heretics, What's Wrong with the World, The Ball and the Cross
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