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Not quite the man you thought
From: The Spectator
Date: 20020216
Author:Hensher, Philip
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THE LONG RECESSIONAL: THE IMPERIAL LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING by David Gilmour John Murray, L22.50, pp. 368, ISBN 0719555396
Gracious heavens, are there no taboos at all left? Imagine a book about Kipling's politics. Kipling has been fairly thoroughly rehabilitated over the last 30 years or so, but it has been done by concentrating on his aesthetic virtues - his formal skill in verse, his visionary strangeness in prose and, passing swiftly over what once constituted his principal appeal, his political stance. A book like this inevitably seems in slightly bad taste, as a study of Degas's ...
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