Rudyard Kipling

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Standard Name: Kipling, Rudyard
Birth Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
An Indian-born English journalist, novelist, and travel writer, best-known for short stories, poetry, and children's books, RK won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He never felt like a native in England although he spent most of his life there, lived in other countries as well, and never saw India after his mid-twenties. He was convinced of the moral mission of the British empire, seeing devoted heroism in its workers but pettiness and bureaucracy in its administration. He writes of India as an insider and his Indian writings were his best loved in England. His increasingly conservative politics seeped into his writing later in his career and lost him some of the immense, immediate public interest that his early work had garnered.

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Intertextuality and Influence Louisa Baldwin
The work was inscribed to my dear friend E. E. K. (perhaps Rudyard Kipling's daughter Elsie , then in her teens). Rudyard Kipling assisted with the publication of LB 's verses, offering conscientious editing and...
Intertextuality and Influence Hélène Barcynska
The Pleasure Garden is set partly in the London theatre world (or underworld) and partly in India (or rather in Burma, which was politically part of British India at this date). Kipling 's poetry...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Frances Billington
Each chapter reflects on a single yet complex aspect of female life in India, from a woman's birth to her death. Each includes an epigraph to introduce its themes and issues, some from Indian cultural...
Intertextuality and Influence Sara Jeannette Duncan
According to critic Rosemary Sullivan , SJDwas an elitist and a monarchist. She had no difficulty with the lot of the Indians and the ethics of imperialism.
Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, pp. 11-22.
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Rather, says Sullivan, SJD questioned the...
Intertextuality and Influence Juliana Horatia Ewing
Mary's Meadow was used by Rudyard Kipling in a story called Fairy-kist (included in Limits and Renewals, 1932). The protagonist of Kipling's story, suffering from shell-shock after the First World War, is obsessed with...
Intertextuality and Influence Una Marson
Some of these early poems engage with familiar British texts. Her playful To Wed or Not to Wed is based on the most famous speech by Shakespeare 's Hamlet, and is not without a trace...
Intertextuality and Influence Mildred Cable
The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton.
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This image refers to a passage in...
Intertextuality and Influence Jennifer Johnston
The title is quoted from Kipling 's Recessional, a poem about the end of empire.
Intertextuality and Influence Joanna Cannan
Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...
Intertextuality and Influence Freya Stark
FS 's title flatly contradicts Kipling 's assertion in The Ballad of East and West: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press.
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In her introduction she...
Intertextuality and Influence Rose Allatini
A study in temperament, this novel opens with its young hero, Ruan Scorrier, watching the outgoing tide turn on a beach on the rugged north Cornish coast, and imagining feelings for the sand and for...
Intertextuality and Influence Wendy Cope
The title, and the verse-form that goes with it, derive from Kipling 's The Law of the Jungle—a deliberately ironic circumstance, since Kipling writes of the rules meticulously observed by wolves and other wild...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
The story is told in first-person by an austere seventy-year-old woman who has withdrawn from life since she suffered bereavement during the First World War. A young, illegitimate relative startles her into a new life...
Intertextuality and Influence B. M. Croker
The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope (A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton and...
Intertextuality and Influence Amabel Williams-Ellis
The varied influences on AWE 's passion for folk and fairy tales include her uncle Henry Strachey , Rudyard Kipling , and Maxim Gorky .
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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In her memoir she comments that, since World War...

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