{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  When T.S. Eliot went public with his admiration for Kipling by producing \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EA Choice of Kipling\u0026rsquo;s Verse\u003C\/em\u003E (1941), readers who regarded Eliot as the high priest of an  austere, highbrow Modernism were surprised to learn of his enthusiasm for a poet written off by most intellectuals of the day as little better than a music-hall balladeer. In fact, Kipling\u0026rsquo;s  influence on Eliot (himself far more of a deliberately self-made Englishman than Kipling ever was) had already shown itself in two of his own \u0026lsquo;historical\u0026rsquo; or \u0026lsquo;country-house\u0026rsquo; poems, \u0026lsquo;Burnt Norton\u0026rsquo;  and \u0026lsquo;Little Gidding\u0026rsquo;.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}