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...Imperialism Out. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.: "No one wants an 'American Empire' with an American Rudyard Kipling to sing the glories of the White Man's burden. . . . The American genius is the genius of a commonwealth and not of an Imperial system...
...Rudyard Kipling, as a child, under a tyrant aunt, suffered six years of a similar hell; but his wound distorted rather than strengthened his bow. As he grew older, he transposed the objects of his hatred and his fear; developed a weakling's abject worship of authority, and became the celebrant of class against mass, of system against the individual, of the animal, even of the machine, against the human. Wilson brilliantly points out the shifts and tightenings of these allegiances as they develop in Kipling's stories. He also points out that though Kipling is now neglected...
...stiff literary standards, England's Poet Laureate is an easy man to underestimate. But the very qualities that make his work minor (and made him Laureate) -simplicity, traditionalism and sentimentality-are also his great charm. Hardly less than Rudyard Kipling, he is a workingman's poet. The same qualities make In the Mill, the story of the days when he was an intelligent young workingman, one of the most engaging of his books...
Named their favorite poet by Princeton University seniors was William Shakespeare, who nosed out Rudyard Kipling, former winner, author of If. Their favorite poem...
...feel greatly flattered by the publication of my profile in today's Crimson. In the receptive mood in which I feel myself, I even am prepared to believe that I look like "a friendly combination of Babbitt, Charles Evans Hughes, and Rudyard Kipling." After all, usually one does not see himself in profile...