Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 18, 2021 and August 23, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “some of them having been written for him by his cousin, whose name was Rudyard Kipling”; “Isn’t that Kipling’s vision of artists in Heaven?: And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame”; “Rudyard Kipling died, having at one point been the most widely-read contemporary poet in the English language”. It most often appears alongside 23andme, A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste, A Hymn to God the Father.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 18, 2021
- Last seen: August 23, 2024
Appears In
- Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
- Turing Test
- Your Book Review: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book (1936 Edition)
Related Pages
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (1 shared issues)
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- A Hymn to God the Father (1 shared issues)
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- AB (1 shared issues)
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- Abraham Mendelssohn (1 shared issues)
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- Air (1 shared issues)
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- Alabama (1 shared issues)
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- Alan Serzynski (1 shared issues)
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- Albany (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Baez (1 shared issues)
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- Aldous Huxley (1 shared issues)
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- Alfred Russel Wallace (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Watch out, too, for other cases where the surnames differ. I like to offer the story of Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister and a leading figure in British politics in the 1920s and 30s. He had a particular ability to deliver powerful and effective speeches, which is perhaps partly explained by some of them having been written for him by his cousin, whose name was Rudyard Kipling.
...ss of the economics. EARTH: So you’re imagining - what? Plumbers drawing pictures in their spare time, never to be seen or critiqued by another human soul? AIR: Why not? Isn’t that Kipling’s vision of artists in Heaven?: And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, f...
1936, however, was a bad year for poetry. Rudyard Kipling died, having at one point been the most widely-read contemporary poet in the English language. G.K. Chesterton died, still remembered today by the online limerick dictionary in limerick form: