Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature,
controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard
Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian
and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two
dozen works of fiction, including "Kim" and "The Jungle Book,"
Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical
form from the epigram to the ode.
Kipling's most distinctive gift was for ballads and narrative poems
in which he drew vivid characters in universal situations,
articulating profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a
subtle, affecting anatomist of the human heart, and his deep
feeling for the natural world was exquisitely expressed in his
verse. He was shattered by World War I, in which he lost his only
son, and his work darkened in later years but never lost its
extraordinary vitality.
All of these aspects of Kipling's poetry are represented in this
selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as
"Mandalay" and "If" to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and
personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.
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