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 ...

John Kipling went missing in action at the Battle of Loos, in northern France, one hundred years ago, on September 27, 1915. The eighteen-year-old lieutenant was likely the most widely searched-for ...

The book incorporates more than 90 Unangam Tunuu words and phrases and includes a glossary at the end, along with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixteen-year-old Rudyard Kipling returned to India after a miserable childhood, and slightly less miserable adolescence in England, to take up the perfect job for a precociously gifted but possibly ...

Rudyard Kipling’s father,Lockwood, is little remembered today. Growing up, however, I came across him in Rudyard’s Great Game masterpiece, “Kim” (1901), the Anglo-Indian curator in which was modeled ...