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    Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

    Rudyard Kipling’s Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886) was an instant hit. Kipling, just shy of twenty-one, had already...

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