Talk:Rudyard Kipling

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 Definition:  (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [d] [e]
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I have made a start on this article, using readily availabe sources. Kipling is a writer about whom I have contradictory feelings. He has a wonderful style, both in prose and verse, as even the elitist TSE was obliged to recognise, and illuminating insights; but some of his attitudes (perhaps his underlying attitude - I do not know) are repugnant. Doubtless these views are shared, but I do not have enough information to reference them. --Martin Wyatt 20:46, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

He's been controversial for many years now -- go ahead and do your best! Hayford Peirce 03:51, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Bad review

Diana Rigg did a book called "No Turn Unstoned", a collection of bad reviews compiled mainly by asking her friends in film/TV/theater for examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Turn_Unstoned

I do not have the book to hand & cannot be exact, but she quoted a rejection letter from an American (San Francisco?) newspaper editor to Kipling about a story he'd submitted. It was utterly scathing and quite amusing with hindsight. Sandy Harris 09:21, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

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