Word: kiplinger
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There was, to be sure, a morbid Kipling, the bitter recluse who lost a son (in World War I) and a daughter, and until his death in 1936 retreated more and more into the confines of his Sussex home, "a grey stone, lichened house-A.D. 1654 over the door...
Literary revisionists seem to retouch their portraits with the blackest of ink. Charles Dickens and Robert Frost are among those who have appeared as conspicuously darker souls to their later readers. Once upon a time Rudyard Kipling was adored as the bully-boy balladeer of the British Empire, a hearty...
The Wilson Kipling even looked the part. Born in Bombay and brought up in India until six, he was "a swarthy boy with lank straight hair, who might almost pass for a Hindu." At that point his parents farmed him out to relatives in England, sadistic moralists after the Dickensian...
As he aged, this misanthropic Kipling-hardly at his best in writing about people-gave up complex characters for stock types, and then stock types for animals, ghosts and pure demonic forces. Thus the stereotype of the bluff chap with the pipe and the dog was replaced by a hypochondriac...
Did Wilson, like other literary revisionists, overreact? Philip Mason thinks so. A veteran of 20 years in the Indian civil service, Mason is neither a first-rate biographer nor a first-rate critic. Still, stolidly and finally convincingly, he builds a case for a Kipling who stands between the old...