Rudyard Kipling: A CriticismJohn Lane, 1900 - 163 páginas |
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... poet such as no one could have foretold from those " Departmental Ditties " which made hist introduction to English , as to Anglo - In- dian , readers . Considered merely abstractly , as one con- siders a meteor for its flight , the ...
... poet such as no one could have foretold from those " Departmental Ditties " which made hist introduction to English , as to Anglo - In- dian , readers . Considered merely abstractly , as one con- siders a meteor for its flight , the ...
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... poet such as no one could have foretold from those " Departmental Ditties " which made his introduction to English , as to Anglo - In- dian , readers . Considered merely abstractly , as one con- siders a meteor for its flight , the ...
... poet such as no one could have foretold from those " Departmental Ditties " which made his introduction to English , as to Anglo - In- dian , readers . Considered merely abstractly , as one con- siders a meteor for its flight , the ...
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... poet must still be judged . It contained poems . which he has certainly not surpassed since , if , indeed , he has equalled them , and it re- vealed limitations which he has not yet sur- Re- mounted . In few volumes has the cleavage . A ...
... poet must still be judged . It contained poems . which he has certainly not surpassed since , if , indeed , he has equalled them , and it re- vealed limitations which he has not yet sur- Re- mounted . In few volumes has the cleavage . A ...
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... any kind of poetry in simple English . As a poet he stands or falls with dialect . Any minor qualifications this statement may seem to need will be made in due course . Our concern , for the moment , is with the " 28 RUDYARD KIPLING :
... any kind of poetry in simple English . As a poet he stands or falls with dialect . Any minor qualifications this statement may seem to need will be made in due course . Our concern , for the moment , is with the " 28 RUDYARD KIPLING :
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... of the couplet alone settles it . The most brilliant poetic idea could not keep itself awake in com- pany with so somnolent a metre . Here are the opening lines : " When spring - time flushes the desert grass , A CRITICISM 43.
... of the couplet alone settles it . The most brilliant poetic idea could not keep itself awake in com- pany with so somnolent a metre . Here are the opening lines : " When spring - time flushes the desert grass , A CRITICISM 43.
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Página 17 - You have heard the call of the off-shore wind And the voice of the deep-sea rain ; You have heard the song— how long — how long? Pull out on the trail again!
Página 19 - It's clever, but is it Art?' When the flicker of London sun falls faint on the Clubroom's green and gold, The sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with their pens in the mould — They scratch with their pens in the mould of their graves, and the ink and the anguish start, For the Devil mutters behind the leaves: 'It's pretty, but is it Art?
Página 17 - British soldier; come you back to Mandalay ! ' Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin from Rangoon to Mandalay?
Página 46 - The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray, Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest Who hast made the Clay ! 166 One stone the more swings to her place In that dread Temple of Thy Worth — It is enough that through Thy grace I saw naught common on Thy earth.
Página 22 - And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride: He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and the day, And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away. Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides: "Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides?
Página 8 - And I laughed as I drove from the station, but the mirth died out on my lips As I thought of the fools like Pagett who write of their "Eastern trips...
Página 159 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Página 41 - It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, Which you can read and care for just so long, But presently you feel that you will die Unless you...
Página 33 - I'd been doon that morn to see what ailed the throws, Manholin', on my back — the cranks three inches off my nose. Romance ! Those first-class passengers they like it very well, Printed an' bound in little books ; but why don't poets tell? I 'm sick of all their quirks an...