Word: rudyard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poetry and was so reluctant to set at the end of the day . . . that it lingered and lingered and . . . was never able to keep correct time during his stay in the earth." But the mind craves its equals. Twain met only one. One day an unknown young man named Rudyard Kipling trudged up to the Twain farm and sat down. They talked. Twain said afterwards: "[Kipling] knows all that can be known, and I know the rest...
...Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Seton's influence on his Jungle Books. Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known became a lucrative best-seller in 1898, the model for scores of animal stories. Seton claimed that his stories, unlike such tales as Reynard the Fox, gave "in fiction form the actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy...
...RUDYARD KIPLING-Edward Shanks-Doubleday, Doran...
...French critic, asked who was really France's greatest poet, answered: "Helas! C'est Victor Hugo." Mr. Shanks sadly admits that no recent English critic would have thought of including Rudyard Kipling among England's great, even tagged with an "Alas!" Mr. Shanks says briskly that this is a lot of nonsense: Kipling was not merely a great writer but a great political thinker, and got better & better as he went along. Less a critic than a partisan, Mr. Shanks thus arouses, in his own fainter way, echoes of the same violent feelings that Kipling himself once...
Selections from Rudyard Kipling will feature the readings of Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, better known as "Copey," next Wednesday evening in the Upper Common Room of the Union...