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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PERSONALITY The Vicomte d'Humicres: An American critic on Kipling: Kjpling's natural love of Biblical language: The Bible and Reces- lional: A Pall Mall Gazette burlesque: The Ballad of the King's Jest. PERSONALITY (the personality of Rudyard Kipling is a factor that counts for much. There are flaws in his finest works; there are certain defects in his genius. With all his display of power there are strange lapses and weaknesses. But such defects are not fataQ and the thirst of the true Kiplingite is never slaked. Considering how marvellously wide his range in verse and prose is, it is little short of a miracle that he has met with no serious reverses; (he knows nothing of retreat or failure!) The critics for trie last few years seem to have been unanimous in denouncing him?which fact, of course, recommends him to us. Let the critics take courage, they may outwit oblivion yet, even though they do nothing but croak and catcall at some one who is hitching his wagon; to a star. It is in this manner that immortals are made. Nothing in all the range of Kipling's work is so marked by fine feeling as Barrack Room Ballads ?nothing deals with more tangible people. Here he has put forth his best, his very best; and the richness of his general information about Tommy and his ways is constantly astonishing people. In the lore of the man-at-arms, Kipling is the wisest man of the day. [Wisdom is the distilled essence of intuition, corroboratedBy experience. This is the secret of Kipling's strengths-he went to study the life of the Tommy, not because it offered money and a new field, but because it honestly interested him. For years he has helped the soldier to fight his battles, until at last he can take him by the hand as a comrade, not as a lay-figure. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458971159
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458971155
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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