![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is interesting that, in a little under two years from writing “New Lamps for Old”, Kipling reused the first line almost word for word in “The Conundrum of the Workshops”, a much more subtle attack on the attraction of new fashions in art than the rather shrill attack on blindly accepting everything new which he had expressed in “New Lamps for Old”. More and more, throughout his life, Kipling valued continuity with the past, and was hostile to change for its own sake. Too often people are disappointed in their hopes and betrayed by those who promise great rewards for change. ![]() The poem dwells on mankind’s endless search for something new and something better than the old. 445), which has the advantage of his notes and further details of publication. 5246) ‘slight alterations in the lines in the Sussex Edition from those which first appeared in 1889.’ For this entry we have drawn on Rutherford’s Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling (OUP 1986 p. Lloyd Chandler ( Summary of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, Grolier Club, New York 1930) also refers to “The Conundrum of the Workshops”. XXV ( Departmental Ditties: Barrack-Room Ballads) Doubleday, Doran, 1941 118 ( Departmental Ditties: Barrack-Room Ballads) Macmillan 1938 First publication in the Pioneer of 1 January, 1889, reprinted in the Pioneer Mail, 2 January 1889. ![]()
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