I have recently been renewing my acquaintance with Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling the poet, that is, as distinct from Rudyard Kipling the short-story writer and part-time novelist. R.K. the poet is very much out of favour at present, and has been these twenty years. I suppose this disfavour springs from his identification with the spirit of Empire, with the Raj, with the Great White Sahib, wit...

This article is a critical comparison between the text of letters written by Indian soldiers on Western Front World War I, and Rudyard Kipling’s The Eyes Asia. deployment British Empire to produced controversy, anxiety, excitement among European observers. were depicted in range representations that reflected discursive tension loyal, heroic warriors, racialized primitives. A number authors wro...

Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He received this honor when he was not yet 42 years old. Indeed, Kipling's career is remarkable for its precocious success. His collection of verse Departmental Ditties was published when he was 20 years old. When he first went to England in 1889, he was already a well-known writer. In his short story Love-o'-Wo...