Once or twice a decade, someone makes the case for Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), having rediscovered his depth and skill. And fairly so, for his was a talent that will not be buried under either the ...

Rudyard Kipling’s creations in verse and prose are among the most familiar in the English language. It would be difficult to shield a child in any Anglophone country from Mowgli’s exploits among the ...

URING the last two or three years, we have often heard the lament that the Victorian era of poetry was closed; that with the death of Tennyson the last great voice had fallen silent; that only the ...

Host Scott Simon talks with scholar Thomas Pinney, who recently stumbled upon a trove of previously unpublished Rudyard Kipling poems. Later this month, a massive Cambridge edition of the poems of ...