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Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953) was born in France, of part-French Catholic ancestry, and educated at Newman's Oratory School and at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1906 to 1909, and again in 1910 he was liberal MP for Salford. He was an active journalist, literary editor of the Morning Post from 1906 to 1910, founder of the Eye-witness (1911) and writer of innumerable essays and reviews. As well as books of verse, he wrote on religous, social and political topics; biography; history; travel; literary criticism; and novels. The best remembered of his prose works include The Path to Rome (1902), Mr Clutterbuck's Election (1908), The Serville State (1912), The Cruise of the Nona (1925) and Belinda (1928).
The verses sing a multitude of memories. The wonder is, in finding them all collected, how profuse and pure a genius is here displayed -- Evelyn Waugh * Spectator * What he possessed above all, as a versifier, was a remarkable technical adroitness, a ready talent for witty ideas and a gift for ironical and understated phrasemaking. He wears extremely well -- Roy Fuller * Daily Telegraph *
