Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons. Public domain.
What Serany thinks about Hilaire Belloc
Who they are
Belloc was born in France in 1870, took British citizenship, and sat as an MP for Salford for four years. He wrote more than a hundred and fifty books and is remembered for the shortest things in them.
Why we'd read them at a funeral
He wrote epigrams, so a whole poem is two lines and then it stops. That is the one thing nobody else here can offer a family who cannot face a long reading.
Our favourite of theirs
Poems by Hilaire Belloc
2 in all
Are you planning a funeral?
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