The great expansion of knowledge in recent years about the work of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) from new sources of information has made it possible, for the first time, to produce a genuinely complete ...

This splendid continuous fertility of English genius, this unbroken poetic expression of English character and life from Chaucer to Rudyard ... Kipling's stories were not lacking in his poems.

Now we find that in those much-execrated poems he told the simple truth ... Now no one—unless Rudyard Kipling himself—is less tempted than I to set Rudyard Kipling up as 'saint and sage ...

Why did I hate The Jungle Book? Sure, structurally, I found Mumbai-born Rudyard Kipling’s storytelling haphazard and episodic, but that was something I could easily see working past. Of course, there ...