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

Posted on October 21, 2024 by sheila

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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Happy Birthday, Rudyard Kipling

Posted on December 30, 2017 by sheila

“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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Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling: From Memory

Posted on November 15, 2017 by sheila

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 →

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The Books: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, ‘A Man of Permanent Contradictions’, by Christopher Hitchens

Posted on March 31, 2014 by sheila

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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The Books: A Collection of Essays, ‘Rudyard Kipling’, by George Orwell

Posted on February 8, 2013 by sheila

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

Posted on December 30, 2009 by sheila

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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Kipling

Posted on November 19, 2009 by sheila

“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

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Rikki Tikki Tavi, TV (1975)

Posted on December 11, 2008 by sheila

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 →

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The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” – Rudyard Kipling

Posted on December 11, 2008 by sheila

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

Posted on October 31, 2008 by sheila

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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