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 ...

University of Manchester students took matters into their own hands and painted over a mural of a 1895 poem by Rudyard Kipling because they deemed him as racist, reports The Guardian. The poem titled, ...

Students at the University of Manchester painted over a poem by Rudyard Kipling because of what they describe as the British author’s imperialistic and racist writings, replacing it with a poem by the ...

Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem If— offers timeless wisdom on how to remain composed in the face of chaos. The opening lines ...

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 ...

Manchester University students painted over a mural of a Rudyard Kipling poem in protest. NPR's Michel Martin talks to student Deej Malik-Johnson and Professor Jan Montefiore about the controversy. In ...