Search Results for kipling

... some writers care for. But Kipling was and is quoted more than occasionally : for example, the third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) lists more than two hundred Kiplingisms. He illustrates marvelously well the process whereby one man s wit becomes all men s wisdom. Many of us...

...Lionel Stevenson Rudyard Kipling, Realist and Fabulist . By Dobrée Bonamy . New York : Oxford University Press , 1967 . Pp. x , 244 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 180 The South Atlantic Quarterly Rudyard Kipling, Realist and Fabulist. By Bonamy...

...Morton N. Cohen Kipling: Interviews and Recollections . Edited by Orel Harold . 2 volumes. Totowa : Barnes & Noble and London : Macmillan . 1983 . Vol. 1 : Pp. xvi + 170 . Vol. 2 : Pp. x + 171 – 411 . $26.50 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 334...

... in which he lived become modern history and scholars begun to scrutinize it, than they inevitably en­ countered Kipling: interest in him reawakened, and a new generation came to wonder at his genius and grow interested in his personality. The sun slowly set on the empire that Kipling wrote so ardently...

..., is probably overrated, gets three and a half pages more than Pritchett; Kipling gets almost fifteen pages, Eudora Welty less than four, John O Hara four and a half, and O. Henry, mercifully, less than one. Allen s method, as readers of his criticism know, is to spend much of his time recapitulating plot...

... includes the work of many well-known scholars in this area such as Stephen Orgel, Leah Marcus, David Bergeron, James Black, Barbara Palmer, Gerard Cox, and James Yoch. In this brief review I would like to single out four representative essays by Gail Kern Paster, Gordon Kipling, Michael Neill, and Bruce R...

... to Rudyard Kipling, who was then my god, or more characteristically, I was, in those innocent days, a Kipling fanatic. That was before Kipling became so obviously a damned ass. 8 To Rudyard Kipling appeared in the December issue of the Bookman. It immediately followed an article about Kipling, which...

..., for it shows, in Eliot s own hand, the close relationship among children s verse, jazz rhythms, and the double meters beloved of Kipling and W. S. Gilbert. Then Gilbert, who was irritable, rose and loudly swore He d know the reason why if she refused to tell him more; And she answered (all the woman in her...

... described Eliot s simultaneous revulsion from and attraction by vul­ garity. While Eliot condemned Sweeney, he also, in his own way, envied him. The championing of Kipling offers a neat demonstra­ tion of this ambivalence. Lionel Trilling in his review of Eliot s edition of Kipling s poems made much...

... of Haggard s career, and brings out the cordial ties, through friendly visits, corre­ spondence, reviewing, and sometimes collaboration, that existed at the core of this romantic revival, exemplified by Haggard s relationships with Stevenson, Lang, and Kipling. A number of Kipling s letters, here printed...

... Kipling. Take up the White Man s Burden! hi Kipling s poem was most timely. At the moment of its publication it was becoming painfully manifest to the expansionists and to the whole nation that the fulfilment of their desires could not be left to Fate or Providence. Force would be required. Already...

... of its brevity commends it to popular favor. This is the rea­ son why the short story enjoys an unprecedented vogue today. Kipling is probably the most popular story writer of the present day, and yet he has never written what may strictly be termed a novel. The same, perhaps in a somewhat modified sense...

..., for he was never again to bring to a discussion of a writer s mind the full under­ standing and insight that distinguishes this essay. Even though his later shorter pieces on Kipling and Swift are notably clear-sighted, they are less satisfactory as literary criticism because Orwell re­ leases too many...

... treasured were those the absence of which is so noticeable in our time: independence and integrity. He found a heartening overplus of those qualities in the writings of Kipling. On the strength of finding them all through Kipling, at his worst as well as at his best, Colby was disposed to forgive...

... that reveals his gift for more than mere imitation is a parody of a poet he might have been thought only to scorn: Rudyard Kipling. Kipling s verse was even more popular than Housman s in the early decades of the twentieth century, and one of the most widely quoted of all Kipling s poems was When Earth s Last...

... to weave broadcloth instead of lace. Or glance at the estimate of the young Kipling in The Man from Nowhere; Barrie praises Kipling s brilliance of style, his characterization, his humor, and his narrative gift, but exposes his defects mercilessly. Mr. Kipling is at his best when treating of Tommy Atkins...

... and Bonamy Dobree, Vol. XII.) Oxford: The Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. viii, 704. $11.00. J. I. M. Stewart selects Hardy, James, Shaw, Conrad, Kipling, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence as the major writers of 1880-1941. After an Intro- Book Reviews 441 duction, he devotes a chapter...

... to some degree, it is launched fully armed as an indirect consequence of Bankim’s belief in nationalist modernity. Rudyard Kipling’s late-guard apologia for empire, chronologically after Bankim’s, has often been inter...

... citizen-soldiers, so long-service regulars were substi­ tuted. The modern heirs of these legionaries were the colonial regulars of Kipling and Custer, which still exist without much change in England and America. Under the Empire they numbered approxi­ mately three hundred thousand for a Roman Imperial...

... Muggeridge, Dennis Wheatley, Ian Fleming, Lawrence Durrell, C. P. Snow, possibly Rudyard Kipling. Still another would be David Cornwell, who spent five years in the British Foreign Service and started writing novels in the early 1960 s under the pen name of John le Carre. John le Carre is the only writer...