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 ...
DURING the last two or three years, we have often heard the lament that the Victorian era of poetry was closed; that with the death of Tennyson the last great voice had fallen silent; that only the ...
The song of the sea has long entranced the sailor and the pirate, too. Before the days of iPhones and netbooks, when even printed books were scarce, poetry was the measure of a man. Remembered, ...
IT is probably Rudyard Kipling’s best known poem - and its sage paternal advice may be worth pondering in much wider contemporary contexts. If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you ...
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