Variety of Kipling
| To some of us who had enjoyed Kipling>since childhood, it was a very real pleasure to read that lucid and persuasive essay which T, S. Eliot, 12 years ago, prefaced to his selection of Kipling’s verse. By disposing of irrelevant objections, and by his unerririg selection of the verse itself, he opened the way to the current reappreciation of Kipling; and among other things, he pointed to the older poet’s remarkable | variety and control of form. The recordings read by Carleton Hobbs and Bernard Miles help to support this, even by a partial failure. Mr. Hobbs, for example, can get the right kind of strangeness into’ that haunting poem, "The Way Through the Woods." "The Dykes’’* goes flat; and yet "The Storm Cone" has power and weight behind it. With Mr. Miles the» case is even clearer. ‘The Long Trail," with its subtle variations of pace, is a tricky poem; and it seems to me that Mr. Miles makes a mess of
it, partly by taking it too fast. On the other hand, his reading of "Danny Deever" is in every way remarkable, and would deserve a high place in any anthology of spoken English verse.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 10
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199Variety of Kipling New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 10
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