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Jan 16, 2019 · 10 of the Best Rudyard Kipling Poems Everyone Should Read. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a tireless experimenter with the short story form, a novelist, a writer who could entertain children and adults alike with such books as The Jungle Book, Plain Tales from the Hills, The Just So Stories, Puck ...
Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. Although he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, his political views, which grew more toxic as he aged, have long made him critically unpopular.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a prolific novelist, short-story writer, and poet, who is perhaps best-known for classic children’s books like The Jungle Book and for poems like ‘If—’. But Kipling’s short stories for adults often get overlooked – a fact which is perhaps hardly surprising ...
Kipling foresaw the First World War, and tried to alert the nation to the need to be prepared for it. When it came he denounced in vivid poems and stories the aggressive brutality of the German assault on Belgium and France.
Jul 1, 2019 · Books. Rudyard Kipling in America. What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States? By Charles McGrath. July 1, 2019. In Vermont, Kipling’s political allegories...
For the full article, see Rudyard Kipling . Rudyard Kipling, (born Dec. 30, 1865, Bombay, India—died Jan. 18, 1936, London, Eng.), Indian-born British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. The son of a museum curator, he was reared in England but returned to India as a journalist.
Rudyard Kipling - Poet, Novelist, Nobel Prize: Kipling’s poems and stories were extraordinarily popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, but after World War I his reputation as a serious writer suffered through his being widely viewed as a jingoistic imperialist.
