Word: kiplingisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comment in the U. S. ranged from marked irritation in the New York Times to hardy philosophizing by the Chicago Tribune, which sensibly interpreted the Kipling lines as an aid to international understanding. "What America needs for its protection in foreign affairs is an antidote to the sentimentalism to which...
By comparison to the way many Englishmen feel and talk about the U. S., the Kipling "rebuke" by allegory and innuendo actually was "frank and familiar." But Englishmen who feel and talk otherwise took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he...
But more than the unofficial laureate of the Army he could never have been. At Laureate Tennyson's death in 1892, Mr. Kipling was a crusty young gazetteer from Lahore, just beginning to capture a world-wide audience of greater enthusiasm than discrimination. And when a successor to harmless...
Britain's official laureate is a retiring gentleman who will be 82 next month, Poet Robert Bridges,† with four university degrees after his name and not the, faintest inclination to exhort and extol his own nation overmuch, or to vilify others. Where Poet Kipling has filled the language...
* DEBITS AND CREDITS-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Page ($2). For a review of the volume, see BOOKS, p. 39.