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Diamonds are forever: Kipling's imperialism.(poems of Rudyard Kipling)(Cover Story)
From: History Today
Date: 19970601
Author:Judd, Denis
The poems Kipling wrote to commemorate Queen Victoria's 60th year on the British throne include warnings that the British Empire would some day collapse. 'Recessional' and 'The White Man's Burden' point out the problems of imperialism and offer suggestions for correcting them.
At Queen Victoria's Diamond jubilee in June 1897, pride in the British Empire seemed at its zenith, but in a fresh look at the commemorative poems of Rudyard Kipling, Denis Judd finds the poet pointing to cracks in the imperial facade.
A hundred years ago, between June 19th and 24th, 1897, Britain and the ...
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