T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, published in 1922, four years after the end of World War One, is probably the most influential and controversial poem of the past century.

Tolkien’s timeless epic, The Lord of the Rings, is one of the bestselling books of all time and Peter Jackson’s three-part film adaptation of Tolkien’s classic is one of the highest grossing movies of all time.

At the end of last month, on May 29, lovers of literature celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of G. K. Chesterton, one of the greatest and most influential writers of the twentieth century.