The First Brit

19th April 2008 with 1 Comment

Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. I have many problems with the recipients of this prize and not least with Kipling. This man who insisted that his fragile young son serve in World War I; and who became known as the poet of Empire, was not best fitted to become [...]

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