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His father, Lockwood Kipling, had a job teaching art to the Indians. But India was regarded as an unhealthy place for growing boys, so at five he was boarded out in the home of a retired naval officer at Southsea, England. He was sent to the United Services College, and...
The Unknown Soldier. Everything Kipling touched turned to brass. While more sensitive writers shopped about for rare metals, he jiggled the coppers of common knowledge in his pocket. "Shillin' a day, Bloomin' good pay," he wrote of the British soldier, long before other English writers had acknowledged the...
His industry and vigor made an immense paraphrase of the remark of another Tory Englishman. Samuel Johnson, who said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having worn a red coat. But red coats were out in 1914. War meant mud, barbed wire and lice. Kipling's...
In the pacifist '205, Kipling's name became a mockery. In the ideological '303, it was thought that a man who had spoken well of authority and soldiering must be a fascist. As he had ignored critics all his life, Kipling ignored this too. About the only...
As Biographer Carrington traces the story, now that the tumult and the shouting have died, Kipling rises from his grave to confront the world with neither a hum ble nor a notably contrite heart. He had the courage to hate -a healthy hate of all those who sneered at the...