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Books: A longing to dance naked in Torquay Rudyard Kipling by Andrew Lycett Weidenfeld pounds 25
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990919
Author:TERRY EAGLETON
There are two schools of thought about Rudyard Kipling. One sees him as a supreme master of English prose, an author who produced the most popular poem in the English language ("If") and one novel (Kim) which verges on greatness. The other school sees him as a squalid, anti-Semitic imperialist who treated Indians as squabbling children and thought that being German was a kind of malignant disease.
Both views of Kipling are true. Artistic genius and political soundness are not necessarily allied. Indeed, in this respect Kipling takes his place among the most distinguished figures of modern ...
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