Was he an aggressive, unapologetic, booming colonialist or a deeply troubled, increasingly pessimistic anti-imperialist? An advocate of martial values and stout public-school patriotism, or a hater of ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...

DURING 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 ...