Kipling, Rudyard
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936). Kipling is often thought of primarily as the trumpet of empire, but his writings were more varied than that suggests and he was far from triumphalist in tone. Kipling was born in Bombay, where his father had a chair in architecture. His first name is derived from Rudyard Lake, near Leek (Staffs.), where his parents had met. After United Services College in Devon, he returned to India as a journalist and rapidly acquired a reputation. At 24 he settled in London.
Life's Handicap (1891) launched him as a London figure and he followed with
The Jungle Book (1894/5). His poem ‘Recessional’ for the
Diamond Jubilee of 1897—‘lest we forget’—made him a national figure.
Stalky and Co. (1899) drew on his schooldays and
Kim (1901) on India. He published the
Just‐So Stories, one of the few children's books that children enjoy, in 1902 when he moved into Bateman's in Sussex, and
Puck of Pook's Hill, set in the post‐Roman period, in 1906. Kipling declined national honours but was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1907. His only son was killed in the Great War in 1915.
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The Outsider - A profile of the restless wanderer, Rudyard Kipling.
Magazine article from: World and I; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...visit. Alice Macdonald Kipling was above all a lover...dog that bit us!" Rudyard was named for Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire...in March 1865, the Kiplings honeymooned on a visit...at Yorkshire, where Rudyard was conceived. After...
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Kipling's "Mary Postgate" reconsidered: an example of critical obtuseness. (Literature).(Rudyard Kipling's short story reconsidered)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Postgate", written by Rudyard Kipling early in 1915, before...story as an example of Kipling's cruelty and sadism...this school, an example Kipling held up of how English...in The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling (1977), is...
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Just so Mr Kipling; RUDYARD KIPLING's beloved creations made him the toast of Hollywood, but, as GRIFF RHYS JONES reveals in a new TV film, the writer was haunted by a tragedy which cast a dark shadow across his life.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/11/2006; 700+ words
; ...under 50 what the name 'Kipling' means to them, and they...Kipling: the one called Rudyard, after a little-known lake in Staffordshire. And Rudyard Kipling remains one of...been obscured, and that Rudyard Kipling is now, if not...
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Rudyard Kipling : HEROES & VILLANS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/11/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...19th century, when the five-year-old Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trish arrived there from India...tended to every need. A rude awakening greeted Rudyard and Trish in Southsea, and Rudyard in particular was picked upon and beaten by...
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Rudyard Kipling & the god of things as they are.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...years old, and wonder. Rudyard Kipling's son, John, was...claim, the short life of Rudyard Kipling's only son...civilization. By the time John Kipling came out of training...and our son." Nor was Rudyard Kipling any armchair...
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Constructing the Englishman in Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, subsequently...idea of empire. ********** Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, subsequently...who sat opposite, saying: 'That is Rudyard Kipling, who has just come from Lahore...
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Rudyard Kipling: A Study of the Short Fiction. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; Rudyard Kipling: A Study of the Short Fiction by Helen Pike Bauer. Twayne's Studies...Twayne Publishers, 1994. xix + 162 pages. $23.95. Criticism of Rudyard Kipling has long been notoriously polarized. Only two choices seem readily...
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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
Newspaper article from: La Prensa de San Antonio; 12/30/1994; ; 632 words
; ...Prensa de San Antonio 12-30-1994 Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. En la clsica...junglas de la India, en la pelcula "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book...Walt Disney Pictures presenta "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book...
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A white man's burden: Rudyard Kipling's pathos and prescience.('The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling')(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...essay: The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, by David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...writers were born at far ends of the British Empire: Rudyard Kipling in Bombay and W. B. Yeats in Dublin. Both became...
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Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ARIEL; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; In his introduction to A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941), T. S. Eliot describes Rudyard Kipling's positive attitude towards British imperialism...better,/ The hate of those ye guard" (Rudyard Kipling's Verse 321), can be taken...
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Joseph Rudyard Kipling The British poet and story writer Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was...These works not only assured Kipling's lasting fame as a serious...His Imperialism In 1897 the Kiplings settled in Rottingdean, a...
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Kipling, Rudyard (1865 – 1936...essayist, and fiction writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay...girl invents writing). If Kipling reinforces many of the conventional...bibliography Kipling, Rudyard. 1990. Something of Myself...
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Kipling, Rudyard
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Rudyard Kipling Born: December 30, 1865...English poet and story writer Rudyard Kipling was one of the first...These works not only assured Kipling's lasting fame as a serious...imperialism In 1897 the Kiplings settled in Rottingdean...
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Rudyard Kipling
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, English author, b. Bombay...Mumbai), India. Educated in England, Kipling returned to India in 1882 and worked as...Light That Failed (1890) appeared. Kipling's masterful stories and poems interpreted...
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Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865–1936) British writer, b. India. His Barrack...the Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906). Kipling was the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature...
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