The Poetry of Kipling (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1886
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, India or East Indian people, Soldiers, Imperialism, Victorian era or Victorianism
Critical Evaluation:
Kipling began writing poetry in 1876 at the age of eleven; sixty years later he was forgotten, mistrusted, or despised for his popularity that had begun with Departmental Ditties fifty years earlier. Kipling’s early success led to the Nobel Prize and his rejection of the Order of Merit, to be followed by later obloquy; today he is honestly respected for his short stories but still reluctantly for his verse, in spite of the selection of his poetry edited by T. S. Eliot in 1941. Yet Kipling is remembered most for his poems—“Recessional,”...
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