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 iconic poem If— offers timeless wisdom on how to remain composed in the face of chaos. The opening lines ...

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Zeenat Aman, recently seen in the streaming show The Royals, began the week on a poetic note. On Monday, the veteran actress shared a monochromatic photo of herself on Instagram, accompanied by a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The poem is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John. If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men ...

The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun. By Brian Seibert Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American ...