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B>UT HOWEVER "pure" criticism can become, it still has political consequences. And the same holds true for literature in general. If critics won't invoke certain works as representing their society--as say, British critics might have done with Kipling and Tennyson to support British imperialism at the turn...
There was no "Waste Land,"...There was no "Ulysses," no "Mauberly," no "Cantos," no Kafka, no Proust, no Waugh, no Auden, no Huxley, no Cummings, no "Women in Love" or "Lady Chatterly's Lover." There was no Valley of Ashes in "The Great Gatsby." One read Hardy and Kipling and...
Those who read Conrad and Kipling found the war wholly inexplicable. For Henry James, the day after England entered the war, any notion of the world "gradually bettering" seemed lost: "to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really [leading up to...
Huston and Gladys Hill's adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling short story set in 19th century India takes some liberties with plot but holds to the original spirit. Kipling himself even shows up as a major character, wittily played by Christopher Plummer. He serves as a stand-in for...
What Kipling possessed, perhaps, was a vitality too restless to organize for a long, sustained effort. It was a vitality that amounted to genius: the ancient, powerful magnetism of the oral storyteller. Wearing the mask of a Union Jack Englishman, Kipling may have been more of a native than a...