Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children\u2019s 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\u00a0Kim<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Jungle Book<\/i>, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode. Kipling\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s poetry are represented in this selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as \u201cMandalay\u201d and \u201cIf\u201d to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[241,242],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n