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Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest.(Critical essay)
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In his introduction to A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941), T. S. Eliot describes Rudyard Kipling's positive attitude towards British imperialism:
He believed the British Empire to be a good thing [...] he wished to
set before his readers an idea of what it should be [...] He believed
that the British have a greater aptitude for ruling than other people,
and that they include a greater number of kindly, incorruptible and
un-self-seeking men capable of administration. (29-30)
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