Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

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Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, India, where his father, John Lockwood Kipling, was an arts and crafts teacher at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art. His mother, the former Alice Macdonald, was a sister-in-law of the painter Edward Burne-Jones. India was at that time ruled by the British. Ruddy, as Kipling was affectionally called, was brought up by an ayah, who taught him Hidustani as his first language. Kipling's writings at the age of thirteen were influenced by the pre-Raphael.. Continue..

Some of Rudyard Kipling Poems

If

The Prodigal Son

Gunga Din

Recessional (A Victorian Ode)

Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal

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	A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

- Rudyard Kipling

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