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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."
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]
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[14] In 2003, David Gilmour argued in his book The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling that Kipling's view of empire was far from jingoistic colonialism, and that he was certainly not racist. Instead, Gilmour called "Mandalay" "a poem of great charm and striking inaccuracy", [15] [16] a view with which Selth concurs. Selth ...
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]
Dane-geld" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It relates to the unwisdom of paying "Danegeld", or what is nowadays called blackmail and protection money. The most famous lines are "once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane."
The Light That Failed is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said.