Description
Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936) was a hugely popular poet and CLIPPER
writer who many felt typified the late Victorian age and its selfconfident
Empire. But, as this collection shows, there was far more
to him than patriotism.
Ranging from the tenderness of Mandalay (‘Where the dawn
comes up like thunder…’) to the satire of The Betrothed (‘A woman
is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke’), from the vigour and
compassion of Boots to the warmth and humanity of If, these
poems show the depth and variety of Kipling’s poetry, in readings
that bring it vividly to life.