The Editor's Fence

THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. The 1964 ELT Conference on Kipling: The Conference met on 28 December 1964, in the Sheraton-Atlantic, with Edward S. Lauterbach as Discussion Leader. Since the room did not have enough chairs for the restricted attendance of 35, many stood; in fact, somewhat over 35 people crowded into the stuffy little room and, we were told, many were turned away for lack of standing room. Louis L. Cornell briefly summarized his paper, "The Development of Kipling's Prose from 1883 through PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS," and Elliot L. Gilbert summarized his paper, "The Aesthetics of Violence." The discussion which followed was occasionally aesthetic and sometimes nearly violent. Clashing points of view were, in any case, developed at some length and in some detail. As always after ELT Conferences, discussion continued long after the Conference had officially concluded. We would remind those who attended that they can still have more words, if not the last ones, in the Forum section of any issue of ELT. We are always pleased to have the discussion at the Conference flow over into the pages of ELT. 2. KlplIng Bibliography: We are, at last, completing the first supplement to "Rudyard Kipling: An Annotated Bibliography About Him," which originally appeared in EFT, III: 3-5 (I960). We plan to published about 1000 additional annotated entries of work concerning Kipling in the forthcoming bibliography (1965). Though the editor and annotators have been very thorough in checking a11- kinds of indexes to scholarly material, it has become apparent that many articles and notes have been written about Kipling in obscure periodicals and in hard-to-find newspapers. We would be pleased to have information from interested scholars and Kipling specialists concerning articles about Kipling which have not previously been listed in EFT, III: 3-5, no matter how minor this material is. Such information should be sent to Associate Editor Edward S. Lauterbach, English Department, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana 47907. It should include the author's complete name, complete title of article, book, journal, or newspaper, and complete publishing data (volume number, month and year of publication), and inclusive page numbers. 3. TJIe1 I965 ELT Conference: For the meeting in Chicago next December we are tentatively planning a Conference on The War Poets and perhaps the Georgians. The subject, we think, might be a particularly good one at this time. For several years our Conference has dealt with literature before I9OO and, also, mainly with prose. We would like to remind readers that our sense of the ELT period includes literature to at least 1920. This year, 1965, is also the fiftieth anniversary of World War I and is already marked by much publishing activity on World War I subjects. In the field of literature alone, we already have John H. Johnston's ENGLISH POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR and Brian Gardner's UP THE LINE TO DEATH: THE WAR POETS; wè may expect a book from Bernard Bergonzi, now visiting professor at Brandeis, called HEROES' TWILIGHT, a book on World War I British literature. Similarly, much is being done on the Georgian poets. Christopher Hassall, who has already published work on Edward Marsh, editor of GEORGIAN POETRY, has now edited AMBROSIA AND SMALL BEER, correspondence between himself and Marsh; Robert H. Ross (Ohio Wesleyan) has ready a book on the Georgian Poets; and C. K. Stead gives considerable attention to the Georgians in his THE NEW POETIC. We would like to hear from our readers about this proposed Conference, and, more important, we would like to see as many papers as possible. Because of the increasing vi complexity of publishing ELT, we would appreciate having contributions to be considered for the Conference before I September 1965. 4. Future Meetings: Several topics for discussion have occurred to us or have been suggested by others. To these we would also like to have some reactions: The Gothic Element in Late 19th Century Literature, Thomas Hardy, The Drama (exclusive of Shaw and the Irish Theatre Movement), Joseph Conrad, Late 19th Century Critics, H. G. Wells (his centenary is in 1966), The Metaphysical Revival and the ELT Poets (presumably intended as an extension of...