Word: kiplinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alfred Noyes is to English poetry much what the Royal Academy is to English painting. In his 72 years, Noyes has watched the breaking of storm upon storm of "experimental" poetry, but each tempest has only strengthened his conviction that the poet's best anchorage is somewhere between Swinburne...
India has fascinated many Western writers, but whether they celebrated the white man's burden, like Kipling, or deplored the excesses of imperialism, like E. M. Forster, they were usually outsiders observing from a distance. In recent years, the Indians have been raising novelists of their own, such as...
On Kipling: "I saw no power of reflection, though there was a real gift of happy phrase . . . When he said anything especially good he looked up as if waiting for you to clap your hands."
Face to Face (Huntmgton Hartford; RKO Radio) is a two-part picture of mixed merits that gets its title from Rudyard Kipling's The Ballad of East and West. ("But there is neither 'East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to...
Dickens is dead-and who cares? Dickens was an old-fashioned sentimentalist who roared with laughter at his own comic caricatures and wept buckets over his pathetic children and heroines whiter (and frailer) than the driven snow. But Dickens had gusto. So did Mark Twain; so did Kipling; so did...