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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001208
Author:SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE

RUDYARD KIPLING by Andrew Lycett (Phoenix, 9.99) WIDELY regarded as one of the 20th century's most magical storytellers, Kipling - who died in 1936 - was also a poet who tapped uniquely into the national consciousness (his poem If being recently voted the nation's favourite). Lycett's sympathetic and readable biography doesn't let Kipling off the hook when it comes to his jingoism and misogyny, but it places his thinking in the context of his times. It also testifies to his greatness as a writer whose mind was open to all sorts of influences - as a young journalist, the author suggests, ...

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