THE LONG RECESSIONAL: THE IMPERIAL LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING By David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 351 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY SUDIP BOSE Whatever one thinks of Rudyard Kipling’s politics ...

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour John Murray £22.50, pp362 The point about Kipling is that - chronologically, instinctively - he was a journalist first. Kipling ...

Rudyard Kipling, a difficult, opaque and even modernist author, has never shaken off the "imperialist" tag. His poem "Recessional" is often said to be an exact articulation of a mood in late ...

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