“I vehemently disagree with the ‘contempt for the jingles of Kipling.’ I agree that Kipling’s attitude toward life seems to me wanting in complexity and not interesting–but it will take more than Sassoon to convince me that Kipling ought not to stir the fundamental human emotions. I think he does–and that simple thinkers often do. A student of mine long dead spoke with contempt of the fighting lines in Henry V. His widow was a mainstay of the sympathizers with Sacco and Vanzetti. I was not with him.”
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., letter to Harold Laski (1928)