‘A series of verses on motoring and motorists, in the form of parodies in the style of earlier writers’ a) Kipling was an early enthusiast for motor cars from the moment his friend, the newspaper tycoon Lord Harmsworth, arrived at his Sussex home in one in 1900. He quickly bought a very early model – […]
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The Muse Among the Motors by Rudyard Kipling
Posted by Simon on November 11, 2016
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Charles Carrington on Kipling’s verse (1955)
Charles Carrington’s biography of Kipling is a masterpiece, not only of privileged research (he had access to family papers and diaries which were later destroyed, as well as close advice from Kipling’s only surviving child, Elsie, b.1896) but of balance and careful judgment, and with wonderfully evocative passages of its own. For a whole generation […]
Posted by Simon on November 11, 2016
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Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work by Charles Carrington (1955)
Since the true story of the British, fifty years ago, was the story of the British Overseas, in the age of Cromer, Curzon, Kitchener, Milner, Johnson, Lugard and Rhodes, it was Kipling’s task to reveal the secrets of their actual life to his contemporaries. (Rudyard Kipling His Life and Work by Charles Carrington, Penguin paperback edition […]
Posted by Simon on November 10, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/rudyard-kipling-his-life-and-work-charles-carrington/
Something of Myself by Rudyard Kipling (1937)
At any rate it went into the Weekly, together with soldier tales, Indian tales, and tales of the opposite sex. There was one of this last which, because of a doubt, I handed up to the Mother, who abolished it and wrote me; Never you do that again. But I did and managed to pull […]
Posted by Simon on November 9, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/something-of-myself-rudyard-kipling/
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Verse edited by James Cochrane (1977)
This Penguin edition from 1977 has neither introduction nor end notes, in fact there is no editorial matter of any kind. It also contains only 119 poems, compared to 183 in the Craig Raine selection and 123 in the T.S. Eliot edition. On the face of it, the Raine edition is the best paperback selection, […]
Posted by Simon on November 8, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/11/08/rudyard-kipling-selected-verse-james-cochrane/
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poetry edited by Craig Raine (1992)
Fifty-one years after T.S. Eliot’s selection of Kipling’s verse, with an accompanying essay, was published in 1941, the poet Craig Raine was invited to make a new selection and write a new introduction. His selection is larger (183 poems compared to Eliot’s 123) and ranges further, including much more of the early verse (a generous […]
Posted by Simon on November 7, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/rudyard-kipling-selected-poetry-craig-raine/
A Choice of Kipling’s Verse by T.S. Eliot (1941)
Kipling… is the most inscrutable of authors. An immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made […]
Posted by Simon on November 4, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/a-choice-of-kiplings-verse-t-s-eliot/
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