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Very interested to hear the HN crowd's reaction to this one. I like to annoy English grads by telling them that If... [1] is the greatest poem of the 20th centu
by dash2 3y ago
Very interested to hear the HN crowd's reaction to this one. I like to annoy English grads by telling them that If... [1] is the greatest poem of the 20th century.
[1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if--- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
- cafard 3y agoWell, you annoyed me by the loss of time spent looking for verification of its date, given that half of Kipling's life fell in the 19th century. Kipling was a genius, with some notable blind spots, to call them no worse. My summary is to say that given the qualities, brave, clever, and honest, groups other than the English got to choose at most two. (OK, the Scots could pick three, also.) I would say that Kipling's genius comes through far more in his fiction than in his verse.