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Essays and Poetry (Enriched by “If” & “Barrack-Room Ballads”)

Essays and Poetry (Enriched by “If” & “Barrack-Room Ballads”)

Bahri
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This unique eBook contains:
ESSAYS
A HANGING
“RUDYARD KIPLING”
NOTES ON NATIONALISM
POSITIVE NATIONALISM
TRANSFERRED NATIONALISM
NEGATIVE NATIONALISM
THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE
POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
WHY I WRITE
REFLECTIONS ON GANDHI
POETRY
Awake! Young Men of England
Kitchener
The pagan
Poem From Burma
“The Lesser Evil”
Ironic poem about prostitution
A little poem
About George Orwell
Rudyard Kipling
If
Barrack-Room Ballads
First Series
Second Series
About Rudyard Kipling


"An essay by George Orwell about the works of his colleague Kipling, first published February 1942.

It was a pity that Mr. Eliot should be so much on the defensive in the long essay with which he prefaces this selection of Kipling’s poetry, but it was not to be avoided, because before one can even speak about Kipling one has to clear away a legend that has been created by two sets of people who have not read his works. Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. Mr. Eliot never satisfactorily explains this fact, because in answering the shallow and familiar charge that Kipling is a ‘Fascist’, he falls into the opposite error of defending him where he is not defensible. It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. It is no use claiming, for instance, that when Kipling describes a British soldier beating a ‘nigger’ with a cleaning rod in order to get money out of him, he is acting merely as a reporter and does not necessarily approve what he describes. There is not the slightest sign anywhere in Kipling’s work that he disapproves of that kind of conduct—on the contrary, there is a definite strain of sadism in him, over and above the brutality which a writer of that type has to have. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly..."
Pages
161
Format
Kindle Edition

Essays and Poetry (Enriched by “If” & “Barrack-Room Ballads”)

Bahri
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This unique eBook contains:
ESSAYS
A HANGING
“RUDYARD KIPLING”
NOTES ON NATIONALISM
POSITIVE NATIONALISM
TRANSFERRED NATIONALISM
NEGATIVE NATIONALISM
THE PREVENTION OF LITERATURE
POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
WHY I WRITE
REFLECTIONS ON GANDHI
POETRY
Awake! Young Men of England
Kitchener
The pagan
Poem From Burma
“The Lesser Evil”
Ironic poem about prostitution
A little poem
About George Orwell
Rudyard Kipling
If
Barrack-Room Ballads
First Series
Second Series
About Rudyard Kipling


"An essay by George Orwell about the works of his colleague Kipling, first published February 1942.

It was a pity that Mr. Eliot should be so much on the defensive in the long essay with which he prefaces this selection of Kipling’s poetry, but it was not to be avoided, because before one can even speak about Kipling one has to clear away a legend that has been created by two sets of people who have not read his works. Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. Mr. Eliot never satisfactorily explains this fact, because in answering the shallow and familiar charge that Kipling is a ‘Fascist’, he falls into the opposite error of defending him where he is not defensible. It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. It is no use claiming, for instance, that when Kipling describes a British soldier beating a ‘nigger’ with a cleaning rod in order to get money out of him, he is acting merely as a reporter and does not necessarily approve what he describes. There is not the slightest sign anywhere in Kipling’s work that he disapproves of that kind of conduct—on the contrary, there is a definite strain of sadism in him, over and above the brutality which a writer of that type has to have. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly..."
Pages
161
Format
Kindle Edition

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