Rudyard Reviewed: A Review of Rudyard Kipling's "American Notes", "Seven Seas", "Barrack-room Ballads", "Department Ditties", "Other Verses"Press of Marsh Printing Company, 1900 - 202 páginas Essays about the author's perceptions of Kipling's anti- Americanism, coarseness, and lack of originality. |
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... poets of former generations is no justification for the grossness he has put into a variety of metri- cal forms . We ... poet for his unexampled distinction , he would never have gained even recognition at the hands of either English or ...
... poets of former generations is no justification for the grossness he has put into a variety of metri- cal forms . We ... poet for his unexampled distinction , he would never have gained even recognition at the hands of either English or ...
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... poetic effusions herein reviewed , we simply say nature has endowed you - with a good education ! and you have a right ... poet of all times lives among us to - day and whom you behold paint- ed in words that almost breathe in verse , we ...
... poetic effusions herein reviewed , we simply say nature has endowed you - with a good education ! and you have a right ... poet of all times lives among us to - day and whom you behold paint- ed in words that almost breathe in verse , we ...
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... poet according to Macaulay's standard - Novelty of style not genius -Force and originality not all that poetry de- mands of her muse - Grossness not a source of true poetic inspiration - What it is that passes for originality in Kipling ...
... poet according to Macaulay's standard - Novelty of style not genius -Force and originality not all that poetry de- mands of her muse - Grossness not a source of true poetic inspiration - What it is that passes for originality in Kipling ...
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... poetic mind of all the past , the other paid to the overshad- owing literary genius of the present - The latter tribute shown to be preposterous - Numerous tributes to Mr. Kipling - Why a great poet need not be looked for from the age ...
... poetic mind of all the past , the other paid to the overshad- owing literary genius of the present - The latter tribute shown to be preposterous - Numerous tributes to Mr. Kipling - Why a great poet need not be looked for from the age ...
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... poet trifles with the subject of official corruption . " Municipal " -Its humor destroyed by its repulsiveness . " A Code of Morals " -Low grade wit . A specimen of " The Last Depart- ment . " Kipling's estimate of himself correct ...
... poet trifles with the subject of official corruption . " Municipal " -Its humor destroyed by its repulsiveness . " A Code of Morals " -Low grade wit . A specimen of " The Last Depart- ment . " Kipling's estimate of himself correct ...
Términos y frases comunes
admirers American Notes Anne of Austria armless armory army Barrack-Room Ballads beautiful better blood bloomin British Briton certainly CHAPTER character Charles Dickens civil coarse conceit countrymen criticism DANNY DEEVER Delight Departmental Ditties Dickens disgusting doubtless England English fame feeling Fuzzy-Wuzzy genius Gunga Gunga Din hand hate hatred heart honor humor immortality India Jakko Hill jingle kings Kipling's verses kisses land literary literature Lord Lord Byron low taste McAndrew merit mind mother muse Mussulmen nations nature never originality poem poet poet's poetic poetry popularity praise prejudice princes quote race reader republic Rudyard Kipling satire scenes sentiment Seven Seas Shakespeare Simla songs stanza style sweet thee themes thine things Thou thought thousand tion to-day Tommy Tommy Atkins Tramp Royal tribute vulgar William Shakespeare women wonderful word writers
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Página 179 - A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke ; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.
Página 25 - Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Página 125 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Página 83 - In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
Página 85 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you, to laugh, and leap, and say, you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper : And other of such vinegar aspect, That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Página 195 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 147 - When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Now in Injia's sunny clime, Where I used to spend my time A-servin...
Página 169 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the law, Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Página 196 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Página 23 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral.