Word: kiplinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A CHOICE OF KIPLING'S VERSE MADE BY T. S. ELIOT, WITH AN ESSAY ON RUDYARD KIPLING-Scribner ($2.50).
Ever since he started to publish rhymes (circa 1885), Rudyard Kipling has been one of the world's most read and most neglected poets. Americans and Britons who would not be found dead with a book of poems in their pockets read Kipling-worse, they memorized whole stanzas. A...
But the intellectuals demurred. The literary intellectuals said Kipling did not write poetry but a slick doggerel-a plausible argument. The political intellectuals said Kipling was an apologist for imperialism-a practically unanswerable argument.
Both these arguments are answered by No. 1U.S. Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (The Waste Land) in the brilliant critical introductory essay to his Choice of Kipling's Verse.
If You Win. Tunisia was a far cry from his books, from his well-loved and partly memorized Kipling, Service and Burns, from his military volumes, his books on Allenby-but Tunisia was not so far from his assimilation of them all. It was ironically close to some of his...