Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

DURING the last two or three years, we have often heard the lament that the Victorian era of poetry was closed; that with the death of Tennyson the last great voice had fallen silent; that only the ...

Searching through Kipling family papers, the archive of a former head of the cruise-ship company Cunard Line, and inside a house in Manhattan, Pomona College professor emeritus Thomas Pinney found ...

Poetry written by Rudyard Kipling is to be read in the gardens of his former estate in East Sussex. The novelist and poet moved to Bateman’s estate in Burwash in 1902 and lived there until his death ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...