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Kipling, the Elton John of his age?

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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.
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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Interviews on Great Writers
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Elleke Boehmer
Dominic Davies
Keywords
Colonialism
#greatwriters
south africa
india
Imperialism
poetry
verse
Kipling
British empire
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 08/10/2012
Duration: 00:10:40

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