Heretics · Character
Mr. Rudyard Kipling
An unconventional poet by divine caprice who longs above all to be a conventional one, celebrating his people's destiny as Poet Laureate.
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Also known as Rudyard Kipling, Mr. Kipling, Kipling, a Mr. Rudyard Kipling
First appearance: III: On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
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Mentioned as a contemporary whose philosophy Chesterton intends to examine as a heretic.
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Chesterton admires Kipling's arresting art while noting the paradox that the gods gave him originality, which is disagreement with others, and he desires divinely to agree with them. The tension is between the raw…
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- I: Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
- III: On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
- Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
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