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1. The opening line of the poem 'The Rolling English Road':
'Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,' identifies Rye as the first place visited in our literary gazetteer. Rye provides the setting for several Miss Mapp stories. Which novelist created this character?
2. As G. K. Chesterton had it in his poem about the 'Rolling English Road' the Severn was there even before the Romans came.
But which great English poet had earlier identified the Severn with the river goddess Sabrina and said:
'Sabrina is her name, virgin pure'?
3. The next place visited in our literary gazetteer comes from the G. K. Chesterton poem 'The Rolling English Road':
'A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
The night we went to 'Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.'
Birmingham was the birthplace of the creator of the arch villain 'Fu Manchu'. Who was this author?
4. 'Beachy Head' was not only one of the the geographical stopping points in the G K Chesterton poem 'The Rolling English Road' but also the highly significant poetical work of which female Romantic Poet?
5. The famous Chesterton poem 'The Rolling English Road' provides us with a lovely sounding clue for our literary gazetteer and tour of England:
'Where you and I went down the lane with ale-mugs in our hands,
The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands'
This time I'm looking for you to identify the novelist and playwright born near Glastonbury who had a hero with the same name as a world famous Welsh singer (also known as a sometime collector of undergarments) from Pontypridd.
So who was the writer?
6. G. K. Chesterton's poem about the rolling roads of England provides us with a clue about the identity of the author we are seeking on this occasion:
'God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear ,
The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier. '
But, who wrote, not Brighton Pier, but 'Brighton Rock'?
7. The famous Chesterton poem about the rolling English road identifies a famous meeting place where the Scots and English exchanged unpleasantries.
'God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear ,
The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier. '
Bannockburn was of course a famous victory long celebrated by the Scots. Several poets and playwrights have added their poetic contributions to the subject over the years. The one I'm asking you to identify penned these lines:
'Then the Scots did shout and sing
Long live Sir Robert Bruce our King'
That made King Edward mourn
The day he came to Bannockburn!'
So who was he?
8. Chesterton's 'The Rolling English Road' is a wonderfully comic and sad poem which has also provided a clue about our next poet to identify:
'For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green'
This English poet uniquely gifted in Latin and scholarship though physically impaired wrote two mainstream epics showing both how paradise was lost and then regained. Who was he?
9. According to the poem by Chesterton 'The Rolling English Road', Kensal Green is the final resting place. It was of course one of the largest cemeteries in London.
Kensal Green is the resting place of this poet's wife, half-sister, publisher, best man and most faithful servant; and a further clue to help you identify him are these lines taken from one his many very successful poems which to many give an insight into the innate character of this poet.
'He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress--or a nunnery.'
So who is our noble poet?
10. G.K. Chesterton wrote the poem 'The Rolling English Road' and many other works of poetry, plays and even crime novels. You will no doubt have heard of Father Brown, one of his best known sleuths. But can you identify any more of Chesterton's creations from this list?
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