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Introduction : "when two strong men stand face to face" : locating Kipling with Yeats -- Yeats and Kipling : parallels, divergences, and convergences / Rupin W. Desai -- Mowgli, the law of the jungle, and the Panchatantra / Mythili Kaul -- The ungendered self : Yeats's "A prayer for my daughter" in the light of Indian philosophy / Ruth Vanita -- Songs of the wandering aengus : echoes of the political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis's The habit of fear / Peter Schulman -- Yeats, Kipling and the haven-finding art / Malabika Sarkar -- Transgressed margins : reading the "other" Kipling / Madhu Grover -- "Turning from the mirror to meditation upon a mask" : Yeats's search for his daimon in "Ego dominus tuus" / Amiya Bhushan Sharma -- Kim's modern education : Rudyard Kipling the zealot / K.B.S. Krishna -- The chameleon and the peacock : Kipling and Yeats as creative readers of Shakespeare / Robert S. White -- "The writer is indebted to the pioneer and civil and military gazette" : Kipling, newspapers, and poetry / John Lee -- Politics, drama, and poetry : the political vision of W.B. Yeats as reflected in select plays and poems / Prashant Sinha -- Redefining the body of censorship : reading Rudyard Kipling's Indian short stories (1888-1902) / Indrani Das Gupta -- Rudyard Kipling and the networks of empire : writing imperial infrastructure in the light that failed and captains courageous / Dominic Davies -- "The passionless passion of slaughter" : heroism and the aesthetics of violence / Alexander Bubb -- "I am not a sahib" : boys and masculinity in Kipling's Indian fiction / Usha Mudiganti -- Does Kipling's "if" appropriate the Gita? : correlating empire, muscular Christianity and Sthitaprajna / Nanditha Rajaram Shastry -- Chaps : Kipling, Yeats, and the empire of men / Anubhav Pradhan. "This book reconsiders the legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats to evaluate the parallels, divergences, and convergences which underscore their literature. Over 150 years since 1865, their year of birth, this volume sheds light on the works of two seminal litterateurs of the 20th-century English literary canon to highlight the conversational undercurrents that cut across their diametrically polar worldviews. Contextualizing their texts to the larger milieu that Kipling and Yeats lived in and contributed to, the book investigates a range of aesthetic and perceptual similarities -- from cultures of violence to notions masculinity, Shakespeare to poesy, British imperialism and industrial modernity -- to establish the perceptible consonance of their works. Kipling and Yeats are known to never have corresponded, but these essays show evidence of the influence that their acute awareness of each other's work and thoughts may have had"--
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