Dear Paul
This is a PS in a lighter vein and with apologies to Shakespeare!
You all do remember how
He was thrice offered honours
Which he did thrice refuse -
Was this Imperialism?
Know how he did at Bateman’s hide,
And asked not to be sought….
An imperialist should be made of showy stuff!
The honour/prize Kipling accepted was a literary one and that truly was an
intellectual choice, though he was not an intellectual in the Orwellian
sense of the word
All good wishes, Sharad
>From: Paul Hutchinson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paul Hutchinson <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: an age of imperialists?
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:44:37 +0000
>
>Jane and Sharad Keskar query why "in an age of
>imperialists, Kipling should be singled out and
>castigated for being a man of his time". This gives
>the impression that Kipling was pretty much mainstream
>in his imperialism.
>
>May I ask whether this is the weight of expert opinion?
>Was his age one of imperialists?
>
>My impression, certainly superficial rather than expert,
>is that in Britain in the years 1880-1914, there was a
>very wide range of opinions about the Empire, and that
>those who were as imperialist as Kipling were quite a
>small minority. (My impression also is that Kipling's
>position was a conscious, deliberate, one --- not
>something adopted unintelligently.)
>
>Paul Hutchinson.
>
>
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