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KIPLING: THE GLASS, THE SHADOW
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...
And the ideas don't just circulate at Harvard; they are designed to explain Harvard, too. Theories about the University mostly contradict one another, but like Kipling's nine and sixty ways of performing tribal lays, every single one of them is right. One theory stresses the number of knowledgeable...
Forbidden Fruit. Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey dismissed Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) as English literature's "performing flea," an acidulous comment that P.G. himself ("Plum" to friends) loved to repeat. But other writers, ranging from Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell to Bertrand Russell and Evelyn Waugh, recognized that Wodehouse...