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- 21: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Poe was the originator of the American short story. There had been other short works of fiction, but Poe perfected the short story as an art form. Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and Conan Doyle were influenced by him, particularly in their early writing, before each had found his individual style. Poe led in his methods of analysis in his detective stories ...
- 22: Edward James Hughes
- ... 486). Speaking of his early poems, the critics note that at first they were mistakenly viewed as a development of tradition of English animalistic poetry (6:414) started by Rudyard Kipling and D.H. Lawrence. G. Bauzyte stresses that Hughes is not purely animalistic poet, since in his animalistic verse he seeks parallels to human life (4:163). In I. Varnaite ...
- 23: Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... s reputation among his contemporaries was very much of the kind which is accorded to a teacher of sage" (Lucie-Smith, 14). His influence was widespread, affecting writers such as Kipling, Masefield, Frost, Hardy, Pound, and Eliot (25). "Browning's writing is one of the things which is most apt to repel contemporary readers," says Lucie-Smith (17). Perhaps this is ...
- 24: Imperialism
- ... by invoking a paternalistic and racist theory (founded in part upon popular but erroneous generalizations derived from Darwin's theory of evolution) which saw Imperialism as a manifestation of what Kipling would refer to as "the white man's burden." The implication, of course, was that the Empire existed not for the benefit -- economic or strategic or otherwise -- of Britain itself ...
- 25: Imperialism
- ... factories, Markets for finished products, places to invest surplus capital, and places to send surplus population. And social causes also led to imperialism. Many people believed the word of Rudyard Kipling, who said it was the white mans burden to educate the people of the underdeveloped world, spread the customs of what they perceived was a superior western culture, and to ...
- 26: Feral Children
- ... a result of cultural deprivation. Fictionalized accounts of feral children have recurred throughout history, from the legend of ROMULUS AND REMUS to the more recent fictions of Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's JUNGLE BOOK (1894) and TARZAN OF THE APES in several works by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They have been the themes of the films The Wild Child (1970) by Francois ...
- 27: Creative Writing: John Griffith Biography
- ... for vagrancy. I spent one month in jail and there I realized I needed to make something of myself. I returned to California and to school. My reading continued. Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson became my liteary gods and Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx made me a Socialist. I began writing while in college but could not find a ...
- 28: Stephen Crane
- ... to write. Along with his beliefs in Darwinism, he drew much if his influences from his religious beliefs (Colvert 12:108). Famous writers such as Hamlin Garland, William Howells, Rudyard Kipling, and Tolstoy also influenced him (12:101). The first of his stories was Maggie, which was very unpopular ("Stephen" n.p.). His second novel, The Red Badge of Courage, earned ...
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