THE LONG RECESSIONAL: THE IMPERIAL LIFE OF RUDYARD KIPLING By David Gilmour Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26, 351 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY SUDIP BOSE Whatever one thinks of Rudyard Kipling’s politics ...

Rudyard Kipling, a difficult, opaque and even modernist author, has never shaken off the "imperialist" tag. His poem "Recessional" is often said to be an exact articulation of a mood in late ...

When David Gilmour's excellent book about Kipling's imperial politics, The Long Recessional, came out a few months ago, I expressed mild astonishment that a sympathetic book on so previously taboo a ...

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: An humble and a contrite heart.

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Though David Gilmour's book has the form of a biography, it does not concern itself with ...

NEW volume of poetry from the hand of a man of recognized power is like a message brought from a battlefield. One's chief interest is in learning how the battle is going. Whether the messenger arrives ...