Writings on WritingCambridge University Press, 26 հլս, 1996 թ. - 213 էջ Unlike his contemporaries Virginia Woolf and Henry James, Kipling always denied he was a critic. But his letters, speeches, and stories are full of comments on writing and writers. This collection, including many formerly unpublished private letters and papers, details Kipling's response to the commercialisation of literature and the emerging role of the writer as celebrity in the turbulent literary world of the 1890s and beyond. They reveal a mind intensely concerned with questions of literary value, with language and imagination, with truth, realism, and romanticism. Kipling's fame made him a significant spokesperson for important segments of the reading public - the soldiers, engineers, and functionaries central to Britain's imperial expansion. He profoundly influenced English literary language and our perception of English national character. This book offers access to the private and public history of a writer whose continuing influence is still a matter of fierce controversy. |
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN | 3 |
Introduction to Schoolboy Lyrics 1881 | 4 |
From a letter to E K Robinson 30 April 1886 | 5 |
From Cold Iron | 8 |
AESTHETICS | 9 |
Preface to The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales | 11 |
The Last of the Stories | 13 |
Unpublished Prefaces to Departmental Ditties 1st English edition | 27 |
From The Bull that Thought | 101 |
HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE | 113 |
From a letter to W C Crofts 1827 February 1886 | 114 |
Obituary in The Pioneer 14 February 1887 | 115 |
From a letter to Edmonia Hill 15 May 1888 | 116 |
Shakespeare and The Tempest | 117 |
From a letter to John St Loe Strachey 2 January 1899 | 120 |
From a letter to John St Loe Strachey 22 January 1899 | 121 |
From a letter to William Canton 5 April 1890 | 29 |
From A Matter of Fact | 40 |
From a letter to Edward Lucas White 1017 December 1893 | 41 |
The Last Rhyme of True Thomas | 42 |
From a letter to Robert Barr 1 July 1894 | 47 |
From a letter to Edward Everett Hale 16 January 1895 | 48 |
Preface to The Just So Stories December 1897 | 49 |
Epigraph to ch viii of Kim | 50 |
Literature | 51 |
The Claims of Art | 54 |
Unpublished speech at Trinity College Cambridge 17 June 1908 | 56 |
From a letter to Miss M Hooper March 1910 | 57 |
The Uses of Reading | 58 |
Some Aspects of Travel | 69 |
Epigraph to The Edge of the Evening | 81 |
Fiction | 82 |
From Introduction to The Irish Guards in the Great War | 85 |
HOW TO WRITE INGREDIENTS AND METHODS | 87 |
From a letter to Augusta Tweddell 10 July 1888 | 89 |
From a letter to Mary Mapes Dodge 21 October 1892 | 91 |
From a letter to Mary Mapes Dodge 24 November 1892 | 92 |
From a letter to Edward Lucas White 25 February 1893 | 93 |
From a letter to Howard Pyle 25 August 1894 | 94 |
From a letter to Robert Barr 4 November 1894 | 95 |
From a letter to Richard Watson Gilder 25 September 1895 | 96 |
From a letter to Louisa Baldwin 14 December 1895 | 97 |
From a holograph note in the manuscript of Puck of Pooks Hill The Runes on the Sword | 98 |
From a letter to Edward Lucas White 13 December 1910 | 99 |
From a letter to a schoolboy 24 February 1919 | 100 |
From a letter to Brimley Johnson 28 November 1900 | 122 |
From Wireless | 123 |
From a letter to Mrs Edmonia Hill 8 March 1905 | 124 |
From a letter to Henry James 4 November 1911 | 125 |
From a letter to Ian Colvin 17 August 1917 | 127 |
A Recantation | 128 |
From a letter to C R L Fletcher 12 July 1918 | 130 |
Letter to James Rennell Rodd 1 July 1924 | 131 |
Speech to the Canadian Authors Association | 132 |
From a letter to Sir Herbert Baker 17 March 1934 | 134 |
From a letter to Nicholas Murray Butler 1935 | 135 |
THE COMMERCE OF LITERATURE | 136 |
From a letter to Thacker Spink Co Calcutta 9 August 1888 | 137 |
From a letter to Thacker Spink Co Calcutta October 1888 | 138 |
From a letter to S S McClure January 1890 | 139 |
Letter to W E Henley ?September 1890 | 140 |
Some Notes on a Bill | 141 |
From a letter to Mary Mapes Dodge 15 October 1892 | 144 |
From The ThreeDecker | 145 |
From a letter to Frank N Doubleday 6 October 1896 | 146 |
The Handicaps of Letters | 149 |
THE WRITER AND HIS CRITICS | 152 |
In the Neolithic Age | 153 |
From a letter to Charles Eliot Norton 16 December 1897 | 155 |
AFTERWORDS | 157 |
A TreasureHunter | 161 |
Explanatory Notes | 162 |
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