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British World War I poets
Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Hedd Wyn, A.E.Housman, Wilfred Owen, G.K.Chesterton, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Laurence Binyon, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Julian Grenfell
ISBN/EAN: 9781156089569
Umbreit-Nr.: 7455255
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 68 S.
Format in cm: 0.5 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 04.11.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Hedd Wyn, A. E. Housman, Wilfred Owen, G. K. Chesterton, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Laurence Binyon, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Julian Grenfell, Isaac Rosenberg, Hilaire Belloc, Herbert Read, Walter de la Mare, Ivor Gurney, Jessie Pope, Vera Brittain, Lady Margaret Sackville, Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Edgell Rickword, Owen Rutter, Gilbert Waterhouse, Eva Dobell, May Wedderburn Cannan, Gilbert Frankau, Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, P. H. B. Lyon, Arthur Graeme West, W. N. Hodgson, William Hamilton, Robert Nichols, Anna Gordon Keown, Roland Leighton, John Crommelin-Brown, Jeffery Day, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Dyneley Hussey, Walter Lyon, Vivian de Sola Pinto, T. P. Cameron Wilson, Geoffrey Dearmer, Geoffrey Faber, Herbert Asquith, R. E. Vernède, Leslie Coulson. Excerpt: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The White Man's Burden (1899) and If- (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. A young George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural