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"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son ...
Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (born MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. [13] Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters ) [ 14 ] was a vivacious woman, [ 15 ] of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."
"For All We Have And Are" is a 1914 poem by Rudyard Kipling in response to German war crimes during the First World War. The poem was published in The Times of London and The New York Times on 2 September 1914, after the German invasion of Belgium the month before.
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Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...
Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas [6] Alice Meynell, Other Poems [6] Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897) [6] John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems [6] Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads; Christina Rossetti, New Poems, edited by W. M ...
It is in two parts. The first part is an essay by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), in which he discusses the nature and stature of British poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). The second part consists of Eliot's selection from Kipling's poems. A Choice of Kipling's Verse was republished in 1963. [1]
McAndrew's Hymn" is a poem by English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was begun in 1893, and first published in December 1894 in Scribner's Magazine. [1] [2] It was collected in Kipling's The Seven Seas of 1896. Some editions title the poem "M'Andrew's Hymn". [Note 1]