Source: File: Rudyard Kipling.jpeg [online] see an
original image at: <https://www.poeticous.com/kipling> [24 October 2015].
With questions
raised
In the House of
Commons,
Came one subject
discussed,
Which dealt with
poets -
Subjected to
military censors.
The home
secretary
Was asked by Mr
McNeill,
About quotes of
Mr Kipling
And Mr Browning, being
Deleted from press
dispatches.
A reply was given by
Sir Simon
To suggest the
Press Bureau
Might provide an
acceptable
List of British poets - might
That possibly prove
ineffective?
With amusement
provided
To the idea that
the military
Did not object to
poetry,
But to times of an
inability
To recognize the
art form.
Meanwhile Mr
Outhwaite
Quizzed, if the
same official
Had censored both
Kipling
And Browning -
Sir Simon
Replied how he
thought not.
The belief was
suggested
That the Browning
quote,
That appeared in a
despatch,
Had come from an accredited
Front line correspondent.
The quip reply by
Mr McNeil,
Was asking for
reassurance
That two separate
people
Were responsible
- Afterwards
Mr Simon made a
response.
The Home
secretary, who
Had raised this issue,
From then on prompted
All censors to;
'meditate
The thankless
muse.'
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Censors
and The Poets - 'No Military Objection'. The
Daily Telegraph, [online] 22 October. P.6. Col.2. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11936818/Daily-Telegraph-October-22-1915.html
[Accessed: 24 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 24 October 2015).
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