Rudyard Kipling
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling has been described as the poet of Empire, celebrated for fictional works including Kim and The Jungle Book. Today his poem ‘If–’ remains one of the best known in the English language. Kipling was amongst the first writers in English to develop the short story as a literary form in its own right, and was the first British recipient of a Nobel Prize for Literature. A literary celebrity of the Edwardian era, Kipling’s work for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission played a major role in Britain’s cultural response to the First World War.
Guests
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Howard Booth No other episodes
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester - Daniel Karlin
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Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol -
Jan Montefiore No other episodes
Professor of Twentieth Century English Literature at the University of Kent
Reading list
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Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
Charles Allen (Abacus, 2008) Google Books → -
The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling
Howard J. Booth (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Google Books → -
Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work
Charles Carrington (Macmillan, 1955) Google Books → -
A Choice of Kipling's Verse
T. S. Eliot (ed.) (Faber & Faber, 1941) Google Books → -
Kim
Rudyard Kipling (ed. Cedric Watts) (Wordsworth Editions, 1901) Google Books → -
The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling (ed. W. W. Robson) (Oxford Paperbacks, 1894) Google Books → -
Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (Wordsworth Editions ) Google Books → -
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling (ed. Jan Montefiore) (Penguin Classics, 2011) Google Books → -
Rudyard Kipling
Andrew Lycett (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999) Google Books → -
Rudyard Kipling: Writers and their Work
Jan Montefiore (Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2007) Google Books → -
In Time's Eye: Essays on Rudyard Kipling
Jan Montefiore (Manchester University Press, 2013) Google Books → -
My Country Right or Left 1940-1943: The Collected Essays Journalism & Letters of George Orwell volume 2
George Orwell (David R Godine, 2000) Google Books → -
The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling
Harry Ricketts (Chatto, 1999) Google Books → -
The Art of Rudyard Kipling
J. M. S. Tompkins (Methuen, 1959) Google Books →
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