Word: wilson
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...STRANGE RIDE OF RUDYARD KIPLING by Angus Wilson; Viking; 370 pages...
...critics and children never seem to get enough of Kipling. Psychologists are forever picking at the locks of his complex personality, while kids pass effortlessly through to enter the artist's realm of enchantment and adventure. British Novelist and Critic Angus Wilson is the latest in a long literary line to attempt to penetrate the inner Kipling. As Wilson puts it, he seeks "the interrelation of the real world and the imagined in his art." The problem is that Kipling's perceptions of the world were often confused and inconsistent; his art was not. Thus he could praise...
Perhaps they reminded the author of his own emotional and cultural wrenchings. Wilson seems to think so. He writes that "even when they appear most impersonal, his political and imperial concepts spring from his own agonising sense of personal isolation." When Baa, Baa, Black Sheep first appeared in 1888, readers were not aware that this story of a boy separated from his parents was largely autobiographical. Until he was nearly six, Kipling lived in India, where his father taught art and eventually became curator of a museum at Lahore. Even on a teacher's low pay the family lived...
...surprising first period action, Randy Wilson put the Friars in front with his seventh goal of the season at 15:51 with assists coming from Art Johnson and Tom Bauer...
...Wilson declined to discuss specific details of the trip, but said local Time correspondents will organize events in the countries on the itinerary...