| Show LI TWO Iwo POETS WHOSE WORK S NOTED n FOR VR VIR VIRILITY LITY Ii of at the tho world vork la Is to discover a 0 genius I TIm THE This desire do lre tuny or may ma not lie 10 avowed but It exists ami i hn mi persisted per through the age 11 Mediocrity may mock the en ell the Ignorant Ignore but at atthe atthe the birth fit u a nil mankind nt least enst ill tIle the Ih better mankind f t i White world may have IIa ve Ions long since cl cea to look ok another ft Homer a Goethe or I or 01 a ii 1 Pope Pop It U has 18 not nu given Riven up liP upI liPI I Urn tho expectation ex aj ot another a n Tennyson a or a Hum Durn Indeed It entertains entertain a hoi hOlM ho of af having hating found two to of at th latter group In the poets who tire the th subjects of ot this article William Watson and Rud Bud Rudyard yard Kipling nil Thy tilt ore stilt though bOth have the th aie of ut I Byron nyron when shei he died iliad anti and their literary work wurl han baa been In less lew than a score o tit of years yar yet hall ban been n upon ulon und approved by the t I critics of ot out time times Watson the tho older old r of the two who wa all born nt at Yorkshire In Th mM inherited nothing o othe ot of the It y tendency from rein hi hll IUN 1 torn tOre Hl health being helne as a a 11 aboy aU U boy 0 he was privately taught and Hid It n gront lr lt deal cral of ot hIM liln roaming the fields rind woods In the country of ot Wordsworth his i muster master and Ills hili model Nine IUne years yeul mo an he through a o severe re mental which gave rise to a t report that he ht wn WitS t I ery hut but he it milled unit and boa since done doneso I so n 10 of his hili best iest work rt It U may be ho ai nu an 1111 l n lIh writer lift hal hili mid that flint io ta of oC great lrea strength nr ar r tare rare today toda but he lie in ill i ranked as us one olle of lit o the tito of or recent re ant writers I advent been hailed haUff us ug tin nfl moon imen of ot 0 poetical renaissance Ity fly liln hia passionate high willed poetry It Is II said 1 anti and by II 1 his hiti grip crip on Oil the realities of ot life lite ho fur for tU an enviable i eminence In III literature and a 11 popular for tor a niche In lu the hail ball of ot lame Ionic While nn nfl admirer of ot Keats and who exorcised exercised n a great In Influence Influence fluence during the formative yenta years of nt lila his youth ho he has haa always true to Wordsworth whose he lie IteM hall acknowledged antl characterized in inthe Inthe Inq q the following linee TT Tie Mit v th n th In their IMi terM hiM t lid Had Hit fUll roe loe vitt lIth This ThU itt est IRe inc het t It 11 nn M fils GrAve ond Other r l In fact net that first set 8 t tu u Ct film the seal of ot popular approval Thin Finn work was Issued In isao hut but he ht hail Already appeared In print as aa a n t root poet In n 10 Ij O In Tire The Princes Quest iiI again agnin In with lila hili Epigram 1 of ot Art Life rind Nature In n the latter he ho h showed the tho true Irue faculty crystallizing much In Iii single In III directness hut but his Words WordsWorth Worth gnu Ravi hurt him Immediate recognition as 19 a g 1 4 reu reat nature pout Pott There Thero were wore In Inthis tills this work vork It WAil declared both hoth good workmanship anti literary accomplish accomplishment I ment nent felicitous simile t With frequent units that thaI recall greater mt 1111 well HM aN chaste hitte lucid find anti dignified I slon and the th true Irue poetic of ot epithet and lm lit hi li truth JIB ho hi gave promise of ot greater Kreuter performance anti the reading public awaited his hili lit forthcoming worl anticipation It II ItI In iii I hi In tin elegiac the donnot form torm I that Wilt son has proved himself a u mas inas master master 4 ter and after his hi Wordsworth n nil na n a memorial rank lila his I mil imo n a tribute to 10 Tennyson a I stately 1101 beautiful lyric the till Imme Immediate diate result of ot which was waR his IH securing the government pension of ot attach I IId I i rd Id to 10 the position made unade vacant by the thep p death of oC Tennyson The Tue lyric Iyre In Iii 1 1892 C tIre the year or III In his canto out nn anti o OO Oo I WILLIAM WATSON RUDYARD KIPLING volumes followed In quick sue uc US rJ The Eloping l and lit Ip In J Odes oa and aid Other Poems I l e j of or tha t oi I t Purple Mast nUl nd The TI Y Yar ar The JIO of pt the World Ml T nna olio Collect ati IM r Walton WalMon has been bath accused of tor to th itis of at poet POtt laureate but this ii s a not t borne orne out by fart fartIn In hii truth ruth no other th r juet of ot the tUne time ban hili bano ha hao o severely Ir arral arraigned n l his hi country for Cor Its fl Apathy In to the Ih Armenian massacres and some acme of at his bin In InThe InThe The fh Purple J nod nud d The Year Yur Of ot Slum Shame are terribly ly He lie 11 li held kl I up to lire he execration of or the to the politician Hu lie lm line hail shown himself a Ii po poet t s d 91 f th the courage of ot his hla convictions a man of vt high hitch Ideals on of ot if undoubted tale tal talent cut nt a of oC eUI and with his hi age In hi mind eoys an emi eminent lInt nent critic hi ui future wl h promise He lit writes verse ver that will ill L J Z 0 1 i f Jj J 4 14 I II I 4 gf I 7 t p t t L I 4 I I II I i Jr I j ti I t lal I II I I v J J I 4 S 4 c I I t f L f J iI I K KiJ r us t I iJ if 1 z iii fr r I II I William Watson Rudard world 1 and bestowed upon Turkey amid her hor hue ruler tuter aUth oi liets IS as t I tho 1110 vice Ice of at t hell and A li Iho damn i cd I that thul caused oven even the unspeakable Turk uriC to wince find and AI protest Ills Armenian appeal was sva addressed ceI to Gladstone wIo wu was with difficulty from appointing Mr dr Watson to the laureateshIp which these Uwe very ery lines linen und such OH as then theM made politically lie lit Is II out otto oU of ot tho the few CW until aluM to 10 that lint eminent but hut pusi LIon ilon who have hae kept thou their respect and manhood un by hy J O X stand the tho test of ot time because It Is grounded upon upun careful art Inspired d by bya byi I a pure purpose and vitalized by a nor mill inn I wholesome feelinG Time The notable virility of this poet sug suggests gr the other with whoso whose name his hl IB Is ll coupled In this Rip Kip lint hin although there are fewer ter points of ot resemblance than of ot contrast between Ih 1 two IwO are arc daring In h their of themes anti and audacious In n ru their of ot modern convention aunts but while Watson on has not to 10 rebuke and even wn denounce his dna h countrymen for tor their misdeeds or acts I of o Kipling Is II too IoU thoroughly an W too toe blind to r n lt and too charitable to her lapses fo to titter oilier titan than things about I the Iho ho l too 00 hu has loin en n eye to the cov coveted OO v eted but his hi sturdy anti and unobtrusive character rather forbids this title assumption However Watson arid and Kipling have co dAngerously near trenching upon each others other preserves In their forays afield aa ns shown by this verso verse from one ono of ot the formers latest poems which suggests famous Pest nut by led floJ OI J say some Ve We keep our bI imperial rl l lot I tear nr bath root come se It forgot h u we wo Although nine years the Junior of ot WaIKII Kipling Is hut far better known anti and of ot ills his 36 years nearly 20 have been bien devoted deot to hard work Horn Born In India sent Rent to school In England and educated all nil over oer the world with the tho educational process still going coins on Kipling Is 18 In III every sense cosmopolitan He lEe Is II shy sh anti and retiring like Watson y yet t l hau bee hauan beean an n Inborn love lovo ot or travel which the tat lat ter ler seems to lo lack preferring n a quiet country life lite with his mother to journey Ings logs abroad Asked one time how lie he carne came by his hiM genius Kipling replied All 11 I am nun I 1 owe to my father which In a certain sense was true and In still another misleading lie He doubtless de derived derived derived rived from froni his cultured parent the lit literary literary ability which has hils blossomed forth in him no eo surpassingly but In every other sense Reuse he hI Is a self made malic and self poised man That long apprenticeship In nn an Kast Indian printing anti and connection with the newspapers he lie for many years represented from the tIme time he was 17 till past 23 years of ot age alOe mold molded molded ed eel him during the tho formative period It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is well known that his first ventures In authorship were store born of ot this connection connection tion his hla Departmental Dt Ditties Issued d dIn In I of ot which he says S S I t loved it best besl when wilen it was vaa a little brown baby with a n pink string around Its stomach X O alluding to Its lIs having first appeared bound and tied Up as Oil a 1 g i i til en envelope elore It fold ohl for tar about 15 5 cents but butof butt of t late Into has line become so scarce that a n astray stray copy COil brought iiO 70 at un an auction In III London recently Kipling reminds one on more of a aup grown grownup up boy ho than a moan man who has hns achieved nehie ed a 0 reputation says san iv a 1 German critic who sho was ont t vore red with nn arm in interview and amid when ho Ire speaks and turns his you would you had be before belore tore lore you a very wide wille awake and harm hurm harmless harmless less child Hut Jut hrs hid publishers l know well that notwithstanding his apparent youthfulness and gud disregard of ot money he haa tho business s sense cerise vey to it lie he probably more l thai al any nn thI living I o drawn from India to lt rising reputation r and find how he vas ia ae t mi to the United States s by b tie offers of rival publishers Is 19 a n story that has been beon told many times as aN well as uis winning an Amer Amerlean lean Ican wife and anti for tor n a time taking laking up his hili residence In Vermont At H tt the lie time he hue was Wall flick unto death with pneumonia in 1899 the whole world WB was S moved with sympathy Were he lie nn art said n a of ot his at that at time he could not riot have haV greater honor paP paid him than hiatt that now being shown by the tie two Iwo great nations of at the rice To o England und anti tho the English l he heban has hall made dear drar by iris his sagas of at empire soul stirring trumpet stroll strains that rouse ambition and love of ot coun country countr country try tr In till the hearts of the shoddiest little of or us II nil nib How lIow true this Is U has since been ben shown In the lie enthusiasm awakened by liy his hl h Ig gar and his hla hi varied Poems Poem of ot tho lil lie Soy Sev Seven Soyen en Seas It were a n work of or supererogation to call attention to any Anyone one ot of poems poem or short stories perhaps so IO thoroughly has hns he become Identified with the lie life lite of ot this iris century and the lIll latter laller end of ot the one just closed First Pirot brought In touch with the English speaking people through brought the human In I erect terest In his books especially his III In I imitable short stories Kipling has eric sus sustained and more than Iran fulfilled the he prom promIse iso Ise of ot his Iris youth Some of or his charac era like hike 1 Learoyd r anti and Or Orthoria thorla thoria that quaint trio of at reckless sol Ulers will live lire while books continue to tobe tobe I Ii i be printed In our language arid and Into many a scene antI and character which would otherwise have stIll been nonexIstent latent he has lias breathed breathe the breath of at atlIe life lIe As a 0 worker Kipling Is Indefatigable though Intermittent and evidently be believes belIeves hieves genius that hunt he lie Is In Anthony advice nd to get a 0 ball bait of oC cob cobblers biers IJler wax vax anti and stick slick yourself to your our sot seat If It you wish to do much work Cob Cab biers wax was what hilt kept elt at work anti and made his hili fortune Hut there Is III a vast ast difference between his books and as liS to literary values It If there Is any anyone one thing tiring that Rip Kip Kipling lp ling hates next to being Interviewed It ItIs ItIs Itis Is hypocrisy and amid sham He lie uses good strong words In writing and sometimes strong stron but not so good words In his speech es especially when annoyed by people who Intrude upon his lila privacy It was this I persistent Intrusion upon lila hla preserves Itla it ia said that lint caused him to leave heave his beautiful home borne near which had cost him OOOO and lice to the quiet seclusion of at his hla present English homo borne at Asked If It he had always n a taste lasle for tor writing Kipling said saith What else was I born for tor The Tire Inkpot was waR emptied Into my veins and was bound to ooze out through my lingers fingers But I want to 10 give gho good work vork That Is my only con eon concern cern In life lite To know Kipling that honest eyed eed eedO O no I sturdy man Inan I with personality his c J friends Eh tray ay Is i him To to lov know his hilts Work v 3 ICily lally his hits his with the Vret L Is to I literature smacking JS thingS f ln In ou ot f the III end vigorous For year T broa Years ears with the Departmental extending through W n S an ani u the lie Hills Soldiers TI m Three Phantom n The The Tue Jungle barrack Pom Hool there was a n rollicking el that captivated 1 nil tilt who rca I death of o his hla hii little tl JOS In r I 9 ho h In 1819 1809 luau hall done lIono Inor v t r m r pot dot liner filler work vork than before IJ as j In n lU Iris grand In ln his Ills latest short Polio ani nM ai Tho 1 Ii i r f s Guard lit hi tIre the Verse erse With lIh Its cpr tho Iho th des t lh Tite raw lalY glare H 1 Till th tite O ii tind up like the throw nf t That was high praise I ii L i J I Tennyson when shortly l jV for tor hiS ju a l ah h he ho h wrote Kipling that his B m rf East Kast I lIst and West Yest Ile was tho ilmo finest thing the tho kind hint In English h Verse If It I t Is n a question whether were ere It to o vo VOll ote e Watson on or tui b t the Iho winner as ns the tho uncrowned d lauro lou ot of the thu hoie 1 speaking for tor while wi n hue tho former has tins P P shown hown his I power In the higher forms torm of at m la night flight brilliant InS M elegance of oC diction the th latter lute haa com e re me Into closer contact with the IJ ii fl I nl ri has hag touched alike with his w Wid a till the springs of ot mirth anti dv d pf E r En n ment fluent P 1 |
