Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in particular, launched him to international fame across the British Empire.
Kipling, the Elton John of his age?
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By comparing him to contemporary popular figures such as Elton John and Paul McCartney, she offers insight into how Kipling's verse captured the popular imagination of the common people throughout the age of imperialism.
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A series of interviews with academic experts on a number of great writers. Part of the Great Writers Inspire project.
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