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 ...

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 ...

Mr Francois, a man of emphatic patriotism, cited Rudyard Kipling's Tommy poem - the one in which Kipling notes the propensity ...

After his only son was killed in action, grief-stricken Rudyard Kipling created poetic epitaphs for soldiers lost in the horrific battles of World War I. During World War I, more than 880,000 men ...

When the first World War broke out in August 1914, Rudyard Kipling felt horribly vindicated. The poet of Empire believed Britain's army was pitifully small for the continental war he had warned was ...

Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in "If" to "keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you" are regularly ...

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. —George Orwell, 1942 My childhood home did not boast many literary ...

One of the great joys of life, as many parents can attest, is reading to one’s children. Entered upon with imaginative openness and sensitivity, and provided the book is good, this shared experience ...

T looks Chestertonian as I write it. As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in that it ...

There’s a dilapidated bangla (bungalow) in the grounds of the Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai that commemorates the nearby birthplace of Rudyard Kipling. But it’s not the actual spot where one of India ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author of one of the best-known children's books of all time had a house in Vermont that's open for tours this month. British ...