The Washington Post, March 4th, 1990
RUDYARD KIPLING By Martin Seymour-Smith St. Martin's. 375 pp. $22.95 ENOUGH DUST has settled on the reputation of Rudyard Kipling to make it difficult to recall the extraordinary fame that this Englishman born in India once enjoyed. By the time Kipling was in his mid-twenties, his tales and poems about Indian life had put him at the center of London literary circles. "The biggest literary phenomenon of our time," William James wrote to his brother Henry in those years, and in 1890, when Kipling was just 25, the Times of London devoted an editorial to his genius. His stories, poems and novels (...
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