Charles Williams novels with their 20th century English settings could not be more different than the invented worlds of Middle Earth and Narnia.However they do have something in common with the works of an author who died in 1936 and who can be described as the father and inspiration of the Inklings G K Chesterton.
G K Chesterton was one of the giant figures of early 20th century English a friend of H G Wells and Bernard Shaw despite his not sharing their socialist politics.Chesterton's Christianity,his medievalism his small is beautiful hostility to the Big State and Big Business ,his anti-imperialism .his distrust of what is now called scientism and his love of fantasy and fairy tale all mark him out as the ancestor and inspiration for the Inklings.
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