Kipling, Rudyard : (1865-1936), son of Rev. Joseph Kipling, Principal of Mayo School of Art & Curator Central Museum, Lahore (1875-93). Rudyard became Asst. Editor of the Civil & Military Gazette, Lahore, & Pioneer of Allahabad (1882-9): authored Departmental Ditties 1886, Plain Tales from the Hills 1887, Soldiers Three, Wee Willie Winkle etc. 1888-9, The Light that Failed 1891, Barrack Room Ballads 1892, The Jungle Book part I in 1894 & part II in 1895, Kim 1901, etc. [Buckland] As ‘the Banjo Bard of the Empire’ he declared that a white man has every right to take the law into his hand when dealing with natives as an Indian is “no more than half-devil, half-child” [Bande Mataram, 8 May 1907]. This testament must surely have played a role in England being given her first Nobel Prize in literature 1907. In 1913, on the death of Poet Laureate Alfred Austin, British media counted him with Laurence Binyon, Thomas Hardy, & John Masefield as a likely successor to the post.
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... He cannot and will not believe that Asiatics can ever be on a level with Europeans or capable of equalling and surpassing them in their own arts and sciences. His view of them is the view of Rudyard Kipling; they are the white man's burden, the lower races, half devil and half child. This attitude of Mr. Morley's is the ingrained, unalterable European sentiment. The rise of Japan is to the European ...
... of arts, more people go to the theatre or read fiction than go to the opera or a concert. What becomes then of the superior universality of music, even in the cheapest sense of universality? Rudyard Kipling's s Barrack Room Ballads exercises a more universal appeal than was ever reached by Milton or Keats—we will say nothing of writers like Blake or Francis Thompson; a band on the pier at a seaside ...
... now "at the turnstile". Therefore, I realised, he was above picky distinctions about his 'place' in the scholarly domain, 'fine' analyses of his written works, and nifty phrases in praise. As Rudyard Kipling says in his preface to Life's Handicap , "When man has come to the turn-stile of Night all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colourless." What, then, should I do... acceptable, I would let a better writer present a character that might neither diminish nor offend him. Here it is - * THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT* The Jungle Books , Rudyard Kipling, 1894-95 The night we felt the Earth move We stole and plucked him by the hand, Because we loved him with the love That knows but cannot understand. And when the ...
... Examination: its tone is a little vulgar, its character a little raw, its achievement a little second-rate. Harsh critics have indeed said more than this; nay, has not one of themselves, has not Mr. Rudyard Kipling, a blameless Anglo-Indian, spoken, and spoken with distressing emphasis to the same effect? They have said that it moves in an atmosphere of unspeakable boorishness and mediocrity. That is certainly ...
... creation and wilfully preparing its own decline and sterility. The age of which Callimachus & Apollonius of Rhodes were the Simonides & the Homer and the age of which Tennyson is the Shakespeare & Rudyard Kipling the Milton present an ominous resemblance. Page 174 ...
... man that he had no talent. On the other hand, to a writer like Waiter Scott, poetry may well have seemed to be no more than a 'knack' with words. I cart imagine Rudyard Kipling, for example, saying the same. Sri Aurobindo dismissed Kipling as a clever versifier, not a poet, and he may have dismissed Scott in the same way. Yet, few critics have attempted to make the distinction that Sri Aurobindo makes ...
... standpoint of an average Englishman of some ability formed in the habit of journalism. That is precisely the kind of thing we want in order to seize the nature of the antagonism which led Mr. Rudyard Kipling,—himself a super-journalist and "magnified non-natural" average man, the average lifted up, without ceasing to be itself, by the glare of a kind of crude and barbaric genius,—to affirm the eternal ...
... village came to thank the sadhak who had saved their lives, but they could not find him. After having saved the village people, he had left with his wild pack.... (Inspired from a story by Rudyard Kipling) ...
... Conan Doyle's "dear Watson.” When we come to Mother, it will no longer be Arthur Conan Doyle, but an enterprise akin to deciphering hieroglyphics, mapping a forest, with biology and a dash of Rudyard Kipling and Wells in it, and also a little Mowgli who will never again recover from his rapture ... and something else, which perhaps partakes of love and divination, to wrest out the secret. We need ...
... of arts, more people go to the theatre or read fiction than go to the opera or a concert. What becomes then of the superior universality of music, even in the cheapest sense of universality? Rudyard Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads exercises a more universal appeal than was ever reached by Milton or Keats—we will say nothing of writers like Blake or Francis Thompson; a band on the pier at a seaside resort ...
... veiled in ornamental Liberalism who hid within "the typical John Bull with the full equipment of tiger qualities"; he learned his politics from the Anglo-India press in India, his poetry from Rudyard Kipling, his history from records of oppression: Shakespeare and Milton did not illumine his imagination when he peered into the future of India. Mill, Carlyle or Herbert Spencer did not shed ...
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