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...copy of an unpublished poem by Rudyard Kipling which was rejected by an English magazine at the height of his career, and the author's original manuscript of the famous poem "Recessional," rescued from his wastebasket, are included in a memorial exhibition of Kipling's works now on display in the Widener Memorial Room and the Treasure Room of the Harvard University Library...
...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...
...Rudyard Kipling had his own explanation for why he was not made Poet Laureate and it had no reference to the Widow at Windsor. Some years ago an admirer involuntarily exclaimed, 'I always had thought you were Sir Rudyard...
...Mortuis. In saying nothing except good of dead Rudyard Kipling last week some slight difficulty was experienced by Poet Laureate John Maseneld. Said honest Mr. Maseneld: "To myself, who did not know Kipling's recent poetry, he is a Victorian poet, whose best poems are not yet as well known as they should...
...Died. Rudyard Kipling, 70, novelist, poet and storyteller; after a stomach operation; in London...