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Kipling's narrative voice contrasts the purported eternal wisdom of these commonplace texts with the fashionable and (in Kipling's view) naïve modern ideas of "the Market-Place", making oblique reference, by way of puns or poetic references to older geological time periods, to Welsh-born Lloyd George and Liberal efforts at disarmament ("the Cambrian measures"), feminism ("the ...
Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling put it, always return.
A Song of the English illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1914. A Song of the English (1909), with W. Heath Robinson (illustrator) Rewards and Fairies (1910) A History of England (1911), non-fiction, with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher; Songs from Books (1912) As Easy as A.B.C. (1912), science-fiction short story; The Fringes of the Fleet (1915 ...
His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". (Full article...
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Having said that, it is more galling having not one but three references or links to him on the same page as a kipling poem; kipling can be somewhat controversial, but there is no doubt as to whether or not he was a complete idiot, and so on that basis if anyone wishes to delete the entire section, please feel free to do so.
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Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...