Lepanto by G.K.Chesterton is this week’s poem of the week. It is perhaps one of the best poems about a single battle every written. It is certainly better the Charge of the Light Brigade for example.
In part, this is because the poem is about more than just a battle that had happened long in the past. G.K Chesterton wrote the poem during a dark time for Europe and it is his mediation on what had saved Europe in the past and what would be necessary to save it in the future.