Writings on Writing

By: Rudyard Kipling, Sandra Kemp (Editor), Lisa Lewis (Editor)

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Paperback | 11 June 2009

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Unlike his contemporaries Virginia Woolf and Henry James, Kipling always denied he was a critic. But his letters, speeches, and stories are full of comments on writing and writers. This collection, including many formerly unpublished private letters and papers, details Kipling's response to the commercialisation of literature and the emerging role of the writer as celebrity in the turbulent literary world of the 1890s and beyond. They reveal a mind intensely concerned with questions of literary value, with language and imagination, with truth, realism, and romanticism. Kipling's fame made him a significant spokesperson for important segments of the reading public - the soldiers, engineers, and functionaries central to Britain's imperial expansion. He profoundly influenced English literary language and our perception of English national character. This book offers access to the private and public history of a writer whose continuing influence is still a matter of fierce controversy.

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Dictionaries of Quotations Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900

Poetry

Portrait of the artist as a young man
Aesthetics
How to write: ingredients and methods
History and contemporary culture
The commerce of literature
The writer and his critics
Afterword
Notes
Index
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