Rudyard Kipling
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:23 am
I've just started reading a biography on Rudyard Kipling. It focusses on his early life in India. It's quite a tome - not sure how I will go with it.
However, I feel I should know more about Kipling. He was quite clearly a huge influence on Banjo Paterson. I read a little about Robert Service recently - the man who wrote so many memorable ballads about the Canadian Yukon - and was not really surprised to learn that Kipling had been a huge influence on him, too.
Of course, with all his associations with British imperialism, Kipling has been out of fashion for some time, but you cannot deny his power as a writer.
However, I feel I should know more about Kipling. He was quite clearly a huge influence on Banjo Paterson. I read a little about Robert Service recently - the man who wrote so many memorable ballads about the Canadian Yukon - and was not really surprised to learn that Kipling had been a huge influence on him, too.
Of course, with all his associations with British imperialism, Kipling has been out of fashion for some time, but you cannot deny his power as a writer.