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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They replaced the wall mural with 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou saying Kipling stood for the 'opposite of liberation, empowerment and human rights' STUDENTS painted over Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘If’ ...

The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling Kipling could get an audience for tales and ballads and jungle-books; but the moment he tried to speak nationally, he could not get an audience. Even now, ...

It is 80 years since the death of Rudyard Kipling. The author of The Jungle Book and If died without finding out what had happened to his son, who disappeared during World War One. Now researchers ...