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Tag Archives: Rudyard Kipling
“My thoughts bustle along like a Surinam toad, with little toads sprouting out of back, side, and belly, vegetating while it crawls.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He looked at his own Soul with a telescope. What seemed all irregular, he saw and shewed to be beautiful Constellations: and he added to the Consciousness hidden worlds within worlds. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notebooks It’s his birthday today. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Anne Fadiman, Ben Jonson, Camille Paglia, Charles Lamb, Derek Mahon, Edmund Spenser, Elizabeth Bishop, England, Jane Langton, John Donne, John Dryden, John Keats, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stevie Smith, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth
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Happy Birthday, Rudyard Kipling
“I worshipped Kipling at 13, loathed him at 17, enjoyed him at 20, despised him at 25, and now again rather admire him.” – George Orwell, 1936 Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India on December 30, 1865. Orwell’s progression … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Michael Schmidt, politics, Rudyard Kipling, war
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Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling: From Memory
This is one of the best things Dennis Hopper ever did, rivaling all of his other great performances. Incidentally, this is a poem my grandmother (on the O’Malley side) loved and also knew by heart. My cousin Mike has a … Continue reading
The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘A Man of Permanent Contradictions’, by Christopher Hitchens
On the essays shelf: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Time to move on from Mark Twain! It is with regret that I say Farewell! But we’re moving into Hitchens-Land, a guy I miss to this day. I ACHE … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, essays, Love Poverty and War, Rudyard Kipling
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The Books: A Collection of Essays, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, by George Orwell
On the essays shelf: A Collection of Essays, by George Orwell “I woshipped Kipling at 13, loathed him at 17, enjoyed him at 20, despised him at 25, and now again rather admire him.” – George Orwell, 1936 I think … Continue reading
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Today in history: December 30, 1865
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India. Michael Schmidt, in his wonderful book Lives of the Poets writes: In Kipling as in Hardy we find a poetry from the turn of the century without traces of poetic weariness, without the … Continue reading
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“I woshipped Kipling at 13, loathed him at 17, enjoyed him at 20, despised him at 25, and now again rather admire him.” — George Orwell, 1936
Rikki Tikki Tavi, TV (1975)
Thanks to Melissa – in the comments to this post – I realized that Rikki Tikki Tavi, the cartoon I saw on television when i was 8 years old is on Youtube. It’s in three parts. I just watched it … Continue reading
The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” – Rudyard Kipling
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair The great Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal about Barrack-Room Ballads: “They are capital … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, John Keats
Keats was born on this day in London, 1795. “Ode to Autumn” is perhaps my favorite of his – but today, for his birthday, I will post: “Ode on Melancholy”. And below the poem are a bunch of compiled quotes … Continue reading
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Tagged John Keats, Louis MacNeice, Michael Schmidt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetry, Robert Burns, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling
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