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In Eliot's view, this makes Kipling a 'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more difficult in 1941 than in Kipling's time, as people no longer had the music hall to inspire them. [4] Eliot thought Kipling's ballads unusual, also, in that Kipling had been careful to make it possible to absorb each ballad's message on a single hearing.
Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [ 3 ] It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war.
Stephen Thompson (born August 1, 1972) is a host, commentator, writer, and editor for NPR and NPR Music. He is a regular on the NPR podcasts Pop Culture Happy Hour and All Songs Considered, [1] a recurring guest host of NPR's New Music Friday, and also serves as an occasional music commentator for Morning Edition.
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Performance Today was created by National Public Radio (NPR), and went on the air in 1987. The program was founded by NPR vice president for cultural programming Dean Boal, who gave Performance Today its name, and who, along with NPR colleagues Doug Bennet, Jane Couch, Ellen Boal, and retired Baldwin Piano Company president Lucien Wulsin, secured the series' initial funding.
First American edition, 1906 Quotation from A Smuggler's Song on an inn in Dorset, with "Smugglers" replacing "Gentlemen".. Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, [1] published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.
When Tommy Richman moved to Los Angeles in 2022 — moved back here, that is, after an unsuccessful earlier attempt led to a retreat to his mom’s basement in Woodbridge, Va. — he lived in a ...
Kipling's daughter and heiress objected to this version, which turned Kipling's Burma girl into a Burma broad, the temple-bells into crazy bells, and the man, who east of Suez can raise a thirst, into a cat. [21] Sinatra sang the song in Australia in 1959 and relayed the story of the Kipling family's objections to the song. [23]