Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

In 1895, the Nobel Laureate and author of the famous children’s book, The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, wrote a phenomenal poem called If. Kipling wrote it out of his life experiences, which were ...

This week, Rudyard Kipling's If, that epic evocation of the British virtues of a 'stiff upper lip' and stoicism in the face of adversity, will once again be named as the nation's favourite poem. The ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

Posterity, it appears, still can't quite make up its mind about Rudyard Kipling. As Christopher Hitchens reminded us in his essay in the June 2002 Atlantic, "A Man of Permanent Contradictions," few ...

THE volume called Traffics and Discoveries, published in 1904, marks the complete metamorphosis of Kipling. 1 The collection that preceded it, The Day’s Work, though these tendencies had already begun ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Stacy Schiff IF The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years By Christopher Benfey White men’s ...