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1865–1936. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. 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.
Rudyard Kipling's poetry, including 'If,' is known for its didactic and moralistic tone. His poetry often imparts life lessons and wisdom, aiming to guide readers towards ethical and virtuous behavior.
Kipling’s Poems – The Kipling Society. Including the juvenilia and unpublished poems written in England and India, researched in the 1980s by Andrew Rutherford, and now included in the comprehensive Cambridge Edition of 2013 edited by Thomas Pinney.
Rudyard Kipling. 1865 –. 1936. If you can keep your head when all about you. Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
This poem differs from Kipling's other works, which often celebrate the British Empire and its military prowess. Instead, it focuses on the more subtle and elusive aspects of history and memory. It also reflects the growing sense of nostalgia and loss that characterized the late Victorian era in England.
Rudyard Kipling. 1865 –. 1936. They shut the road through the woods. Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know. There was once a road through the woods. Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees. That, where the ring-dove broods,
The Secret of the Machines. By Rudyard Kipling. (MODERN MACHINERY) We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit—. We were cast and wrought and hammered to design, We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit. Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask,
