“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind,” Rudyard Kipling’s quote, highlights the immense influence ...

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 ...

Searching through Kipling family papers, the archive of a former head of the cruise-ship company Cunard Line, and inside a house in Manhattan, Pomona College professor emeritus Thomas Pinney found ...

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 ...

Some lines never lose their power, no matter how many years pass. Today’s Quote of the Day by Rudyard Kipling comes from his iconic poem If—, a piece of literature that has inspired generations with ...

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 ...

A small box, which has sat largely unnoticed for almost a century among the possessions of the writer Rudyard Kipling at his home in East Sussex, has been newly identified as a very rare 300-year-old ...

A lucky buyer could soon own the home of famed British poet and Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling after his two-bedroom London flat went on sale for £2.49 million. Kipling is said to have written his ...

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(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.) [V]ermont has always drawn famous people who wished they weren’t quite so well known. Here, they’ve sought peace and privacy, and for ...