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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 ...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ ˈ r ʌ d j ər d / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British India , which inspired much of his work.
Posthumous collections of Kipling's poems include: Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition. A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T. S. Eliot (Faber and Faber, 1941). Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879–1889 : unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.
Rudyard Kipling poems about India (4 P) Pages in category "Poetry by Rudyard Kipling" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
"The White Man's Burden" was first published in The New York Sun on February 1, 1899 and in The Times (London) on February 4, 1899. [7] On 7 February 1899, during senatorial debate to decide if the US should retain control of the Philippine Islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from the Spanish Empire, Senator Benjamin Tillman read aloud the first, the fourth, and the fifth stanzas ...
First (1892) edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (publ. Methuen). The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect.
The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1915 by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). The booklet contains essays and poems about nautical subjects in World War I. It is also the title of a song-cycle written in 1917 with music by the English composer Edward Elgar and lyrics from poems in Kipling's booklet. [1]
Rudyard Kipling praised the British colonial empire in his works as a poet, short story author, journalist, and novelist, which made his poetry well-liked in the British Army. Children all across the globe have grown to know and love him as a result of The Jungle Book (1894), especially because of Disney's 1967 motion picture adaptation.