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Jul 15, 2019 · Ultimately, other political questions dampened Kipling’s attitude toward America. In 1895, an obscure dispute between the United States and England over their interests in South America...
Jul 1, 2019 · He argues that Kipling was profoundly altered by his experience of America, and that America, in turn, was altered by its experience of Kipling. But you could also make a case...
Kipling had always deplored the lawlessness of America; in his account of his first trip through the West, his disgust and trepidation over the shootings of the frontier are expressed in almost...
- Edmund Wilson
Jul 1, 2019 · Kipling’s American sojourn is hardly an “untold story”—it figures in all the biographies—but Benfey tells it well, catching nuances that some biographers have missed. He argues that Kipling was profoundly altered by his experience of America, and that America, in turn, was altered by its experience of Kipling.
Mar 2, 2003 · When a “perfectly unknown man attacked me and asked me what I thought of American Patriotism,” Kipling wrote in “American Notes,” his account of the journey,“I said there was nothing like it...
Aug 22, 2019 · Kipling loved hunting and fishing, as well as what many of his compatriots might have considered the “brash” way of life led by many Americans and their “can-do” mentality, aspects of America which many of his contemporaries found vulgar or déclassé.
There have been literally hundreds of reactions to Kipling's notorious white supremacist poem, which he sent to Theodore Roosevelt as an encouragement for the Americans to colonize the Philippines after the Spanish–American War.
