{"id":19174,"date":"2013-02-26T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19174"},"modified":"2019-12-30T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:21:16","slug":"kipling-rediscovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/kipling-rediscovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipling rediscovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Guardian<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/feb\/25\/rudyard-kipling-poems-discovered?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alison Flood<\/a> talks about the newly discovered Rudyard Kipling poems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in &#8220;If&#8221; to &#8220;keep your head when all about you \/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you&#8221; are regularly voted the nation&#8217;s favourite poem. Discovered by the American scholar Thomas Pinney in an array of hiding places including family papers, the archive of a former head of the Cunard Line and during renovations at a Manhattan house, more than 50 previously unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling will be released for the first time next month.<\/p>\n<p>The collection includes several poems dating from the first world war, which Kipling initially supported, helping his son John to gain a commission in the Irish Guards.<\/p>\n<p>A short poem, &#8220;The Gambler&#8221;, finishes with the couplet: &#8220;Three times wounded; three times gassed \/ Three times wrecked \u2013 I lost at last&#8221;, while another fragment runs: &#8220;This was a Godlike soul before it was crazed \/ No matter. The grave makes whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After his son&#8217;s death at the Battle of Loos in 1915, Kipling regretted his earlier enthusiasm for the conflict, writing in his &#8220;Epitaphs of the War&#8221;: &#8220;If any question why we died \/ Tell them, because our fathers lied&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Guardian, Alison Flood talks about the newly discovered Rudyard Kipling poems: Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in &#8220;If&#8221; to &#8220;keep your head when all about you \/ Are losing theirs and blaming it on you&#8221; are regularly voted the nation&#8217;s favourite poem. Discovered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,28],"tags":[592,1339],"class_list":["post-19174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-media","tag-poetry","tag-rudyardkipling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53869,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions\/53869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}