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Lord Kitchener, by G. K. Chesterton
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Title: Lord Kitchener
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Release Date: June 15, 2008 [EBook #25795]
Language: English
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LORD KITCHENER
BY
G. K. CHESTERTON
LONDON
1917
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By G. K. Chesterton
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LORD KITCHENER
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was Irish by birth but English by extraction, being born in County Kerry, the son of an English colonel. The fanciful might see in this first and accidental fact the presence of this simple and practical man amid the more mystical western problems and dreams which were very distant from his mind, an element which clings to all his career and gives it an unconscious poetry. He had many qualities of the epic hero, and especially this--that he was the last man in the world to be the epic poet. There is something almost provocative to superstition in the way in which he stands at every turn as the symbol of the special trials and the modern transfiguration