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"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, characterized by biographer Sir David Gilmour as one of several "ferocious post-war eruptions" of Kipling's souring sentiment concerning the state of Anglo-European society. [1] It was first published in the Sunday Pictorial of London on 26 October 1919.
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]
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]
"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 ...
Published in Kipling's 1896 collection of poetry, The Seven Seas, the patriotic hymn was among the works that consolidated Kipling's reputation as "The Laureate of Empire". [3] Roger Pocock , the founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen , did not appear to notice Kipling's complex vision of the imperial task when he praised the poem in a letter to ...
"The Bell Buoy" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published with illustrations in Saturday Review, Christmas Supplement 1896 and then published in McClure's Magazine in February 1897 as "The Bell-Buoy", with illustrations by Oliver Herford. It was also included in the 1903 collection The Five Nations.
Many of Kipling's short stories were introduced with a short fragment of poetry, sometimes from an existing poem and sometimes an incidental new piece. These were often identified "A Barrack-Room Ballad", though not all the poems they were taken from would otherwise be collected or classed this way.
"A Pilgrim's Way" is one of the most popular of poems by Rudyard Kipling. It was set to music by Peter Bellamy, [2] and has been recorded by Cockersdale, [3] Finest Kind, [4] John Roberts & Tony Barrand, [5] Damien Barber & Mike Wilson, [6] as well as the band Pilgrims’ Way (comprising Lucy Wright, Tom Kitching and Edwin Beasant).