Insupportable
John Bayley, 19 February 1987
A Choice of Kipling’s Prose
by Craig Raine.
Faber, 448 pp., £12.50, January 1987,0 571 13735 0 Show More
by Craig Raine.
Faber, 448 pp., £12.50, January 1987,
Kipling’s Kingdom: His Best Indian Stories
by Charles Allen.
Joseph, 288 pp., £14.95, January 1987,0 7181 2570 3 Show More
by Charles Allen.
Joseph, 288 pp., £14.95, January 1987,
“... Kipling is the same. Ortheris and Mulvaney, like Parnesius the Roman centurion in Puck of Pook’s Hill, speak no language: which is why their casual informed references, their offhand expertise, their sententiousness and sentiment, blend together in ways which so many people of the same sort recognise and even begin internally to adopt. Hemingway learnt from ... ”