Heavenly Discourse Author:Charles Erskine Scott Wood 1927. With drawings by Art Young and frontispiece by Hugo Gellert. Charles Erskine Scott Wood led an extraordinary lifelong, varied, and controversial life. Soldier, poet, attorney, satirist, anarchist, bon vivant, painter, and pacifist. Heavenly Discourse, containing his satirical, often hilarious, dialogues, is his best-known work.