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Article: "The New Republic in the South": Kipling's Australia.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
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- Quadrant
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- July 1, 2005
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RUDYARD KIPLING visited Australia only once, for a total of thirteen days: he arrived on November 12, 1891, from Bluff in New Zealand, and left on November 25 for Colombo. Yet the country's impact on him was profound and long lasting, as his writing makes clear, and he went on revising his view of Australians, and recording them in prose and verse, for forty years after his visit. The response to Australia of one of the greatest and most controversial of Modernist artists is both revealing and surprising.
Charles Carrington, the biographer chosen by Kipling's daughter, devotes just one paragraph to Kipling in Australia:
Rudyard's visit to Australia ...