Rudyard Kipling was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in the bustling colonial port of Bombay, British India, a city that would forever pulse through his veins like the monsoon rains and the clamor of its streets. He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England, at the age of seventy, his body laid to rest in Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey after a life that spanned the height of the British Empire…
“This method, though conclusive, was found to be wasteful, owing to the expense of repeated bye-elections.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Political Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Longing
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was born in Hexham, Northumberland, on 2 June 1878, and died on 26 May 1962. During a long career that began in the shadow of late Victorian romanticism and continued through two world wars, he became one of the most distinctive English poets of the early twentieth century. He has often been placed, sometimes too conveniently, among the Georgian poets: writers associated with clear language, nat…
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
