Michael, I read it many many years ago, and I remember it was an uneven book. It has flashes of Chesterton's wit but he is not entirely in sympathy with Blake and the result is that he often seems to wander off the topic, into denunciations of certain kinds of mysticism and puritanism. His best criticism is to be found in his books on Dickens, Browning, Stevenson and his handbook on Victorian literature.
If you can find it, the best anthology of his non-fictional prose is by W. H. Auden, who also wrote an excellent introduction to it, one of the best appreciations of Chesterton that I know.
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