A review of a new book, he Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, in the UK Tablet

In 1859 John Henry Newman predicted that there would be no more “Classics” in English literature, and concluded that the literature of the nation would remain essentially Protestant. Ian Ker, by examining Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene and Waugh, and Newman himself, sets out to show how wrong that prediction was.