Choice of Kipling´s Verse

The best criticism renews our interest in an author, and that is what Mr Eliot has done in his remarkable essay which prefaces his own selection from Kipling`s verse . . . a mature essay full of insight . . . Mr Eliot`s essay is an admirable example of the finest type of criticism. He succeeds in making us look at his subject`s work with freshly opened eyes and he is at once sober, illuminating and sound.