THE LONG RECESSIONAL: THE IMPERIAL LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING By David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 351 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY SUDIP BOSE Whatever one thinks of Rudyard Kipling’s politics ...
Rudyard Kipling, a difficult, opaque and even modernist author, has never shaken off the "imperialist" tag. His poem "Recessional" is often said to be an exact articulation of a mood in late ...
22:16, Tue, Nov 10, 2020 Updated: 22:16, Tue, Nov 10, 2020 Remembrance Day celebrates the Allied signing of the armistice in 1918, conclusively ending World War I. People have celebrated the occasion ...
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour John Murray £22.50, pp362 The point about Kipling is that - chronologically, instinctively - he was a journalist first. Kipling ...
When David Gilmour's excellent book about Kipling's imperial politics, The Long Recessional, came out a few months ago, I expressed mild astonishment that a sympathetic book on so previously taboo a ...
NEW volume of poetry from the hand of a man of recognized power is like a message brought from a battlefield. One's chief interest is in learning how the battle is going. Whether the messenger arrives ...
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