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Kipling’s penchant for parody and his interest in American poetry are combined in this item. He had been somewhat unusual among literary schoolboys in paying as much attention to American as to English poets, and Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell and Whitman were nearly as familiar to him as were Tennyson, Browning and Arnold. It is interesting to note that the stock figures of Anglo-India in ‘Departmental Ditties’, still a year in the future, have already taken form here.
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Pinney, T. (1986). A Week in Lahore. In: Pinney, T. (eds) Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07710-6_9
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