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(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
Keynotes
Born: Bombay, India, 30th December 1865.
Died: London, 18th January 1936.
Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. His
father was John Lockwood Kipling, curator of the museum in Lahore.
His mother was Alice Macdonald. One of Alice's sisters married the
painter (Sir) Edward Burne-Jones, another married (Sir) Edward Poynter
(also a painter), whilst a third sister married Alfred Baldwin and was
mother to Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, who was Prime
Minister during the 1920s and 1930s.
When Rudyard Kipling was six years old, he was
brought to England by his parents and placed in a foster home in Southsea.
He attended school at the United Services College in
Westward Ho, after which he returned to India in 1882 to work as a
journalist.
In 1892 he married Caroline
Balestier, sister of Wolcott Balestier, an American writer and
publisher. Rudyard and Caroline Kipling moved to the USA, and
settled for a while in Vermont before returning to England. In 1902
they bought a house in Burwash, Sussex, where Rudyard lived for the
remainder of his life.
In 1907 Rudyard Kipling
received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Works with publication
dates: Novels: The Light that Failed (1890)
Captains Courageous (1897)
Kim (1901) Collections of Short
Stories:
Plain Tales from the Hills
(1888)
Soldiers Three (1888)
Wee Willie Winkie (1888)
Life's Handicap (1891)
Many Inventions (1893)
The Jungle Book (1894)
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
The Day's Work (1898)
Stalky & Co. (1899)
Just So Stories (1902)
Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
Actions and Reactions
(1909)
Rewards and Fairies (1910)
A Diversity of Creatures
(1917)
Debits and Credits (1926)
Limits and Renewals (1932) Collections
of Verse: Departmental Ditties
(1886)
Barrack-Room Ballads (1890)
The Seven Seas (1896)
Recessional (1899)
Songs from Books (1912)
The Years Between (1919) Other
Works: From Sea to Sea (1899) -
sketches and travel writings
Letters of Travel (1920) - letters and sketches
Something of Myself, for My Friends Known and Unknown [unfinished -
published posthumously in 1936]
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If
If you can keep your head
when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not
make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of
all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds
and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
Links
The Kipling Society
http://www.kipling.org.uk/
Spartacus - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jkipling.htm
The Millennium Library - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.millenniumlibrary.co.uk/millib/reference/
notes.php?entry=Rudyard%20Kipling&fromdb=2
British Empire Biographies - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/kipling.htm
Rudyard Kipling Biography
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kipling.htm
Magdalene College, Cambridge - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.magdalenecambridge.com/biog/kipling.html
Nobel e-Museum - Rudyard Kipling Biography
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1907/kipling-bio.html
Rudyard Kipling - A Brief Biography
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/india/kipling-bio.htm
Wikipedia - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard+Kipling
1UpInfo - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/K/Kipling.html
The Victorian Web - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/kipling/kiplingov.html
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