Rudyard Kipling’s famous quote from his poem 'If'— explains why staying calm under pressure and handling criticism defines ...
The poem is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John. If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men ...
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 ...
The choreographer and director Akram Khan’s reimagining of Kipling’s fable updates the message but leaves out the fun. By Brian Seibert Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American ...
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 ...