W. R. Titterton

W. R. Titterton

William Richard Titterton (1876 – 1963) was a British journalist, writer and poet now remembered as the friend and first biographer of G. K. Chesterton. Titterton and Chesterton met on the London "Daily News" [Titterton, "G. K. Chesterton", p.75.] .

Early life

In his younger days he wrote copiously for A. R. Orage's "The New Age". He was the model for some of Jacob Epstein's nude sculptures; he modelled too for George Grey Barnard, for the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania courthouse [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E01E5DB103EE733A05753C2A9649D946596D6CF "New York Times", December 20, 1914] ] .

The Weekly and the League

Titterton was in practical terms the organiser of Chesterton's Distributist League, and sub-editor of "G. K.'s Weekly".

There were financial problems, and embarrassment caused by Titterton's commissioning of articles on H. G. Wells by the lesser writer Edwin Pugh; Pugh's articles had a hostile edge and Chesterton had to pacify Wells [Maisie Ward, "Gilbert Keith Chesterton" (2005 edition), p. 365.] . His position on the "Weekly" came to an end in 1928, when he was replaced by Edward Macdonald [Joseph Pearce, "Wisdom and Innocence" (1996), p. 358.] , in a temporarily acrimonious situation, leading to the separation of the "Weekly" and the League [Alzina Stone Dale, "The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton" (2005), p. 267.] .

Under Chesterton's influence, he became a Catholic convert in 1931 [Joseph Pearce, "Literary Converts" (1999), p. 190.] .

Works

*"River Music and other poems" (1900)
*"Love Poems" (New Age Press, c 1908)
*"An Afternoon Tea Philosophy" (1910)
*"The Drifters" (1910)
*"Me As A Model" (1914)
*"London Scenes" (1918)
*"Guns and Guitars" (1918) poems
*"Drinking Songs and other songs" (1928)
*"A Candle to the Stars" (1932) interviews
*"G. K. Chesterton: A Portrait" (1936) biography, [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hendrick/gkc/readings/titterton/titterton1_ocr.pdf Online text (PDF)]
*"Poems for the Forces" (1943)
*"London Pride" (1944)
*"So this is Shaw" (1945) biography
*"Poems: A Backward Glance" (1959)

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