KIPLING'S IMPERIAL POEM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7388, 14 February 1902, Page 4

KIPLING'S IMPERIAL POEM.

Mr Rudyard Kipling's new poem, " The Islanders," published under copyright in the London Times of January 4, has already called forth a storm of praise and editorials. The Pall Mall Gazette has little to say in a complimentary way, although it calls it a "stirring poem, with many resonant lines, but several atrocious rhymes." It says of the versos :—: —

" They miss being poetry and wander a good deal wide of the mark.

"Both in his remedies and in his fault-finding Mr Kipling has failed to get down to the seat of the disease. We cannot, therefore, but look on him as an empiric, though a shrewd and vigorously minded specimen of that class."

"There is much in his ringing, seorn<ful verses," says the St. James' Gazette, " which will and ought to give us all a bad quarter of an hour, but when he pours contempt on to the devotion to sport and speaks of the " flannel od fools at the wicket and the muddled oafs at the gaol " the red hot shot begins to fly a little wide. But with the thought which underlies Mr Kipling's scathing indictment we strongly agree." Most of the afternoon papers have long criticism.

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