Rudyard Kipling (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Harry Ricketts
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1865-1936
- Setting: India and various locations in England
- Principal Characters: Rudyard Kipling, Caroline (Carrie) Kipling, Josephine Kipling, John Kipling, Elsie Kipling, Lockwood Kipling, Alice Kipling
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Colonialism, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: England, India
Rudyard Kipling was, as Harry Ricketts shows, as diverse as his literary works. The author of such classic children’s stories as “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” (1895) and “Wee Willie Winkie” (1888), The Jungle Book (1894), and Just So Stories (1902) and the composer of some of the most famous poetry in the English-speaking world, such as “If” (1910) and “Recessional” (1899), Kipling also came to represent the British Empire in some of its most imperialistic moments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Ricketts’ evenhanded biography...
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