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 ...

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1919. 8vo, xiv+783 pp. $5.00. WHEN Ben Jonson in 1616 collected and printed what he did not hesitate to call his ‘Works,’ he placed the cap-sheaf on ...

Behind the tamerisks The poem first appeared in the Pioneer in 1886, in a column called “Latter-Day Carols.” Kipling, who then worked as an assistant editor for the Civil and Military Gazette in ...

Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem If— offers timeless wisdom on how to remain composed in the face of chaos. The opening lines underline the quiet strength found in staying calm when others panic or place ...

The poem in the trailer sets a perfect tone, as the dramatic reading builds tension and crescendos in intensity alongside the trailer’s imagery. The poem was written by Rudyard Kipling and published ...