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…
“It is not very easy for the world at large to understand, or to sympathise with, that spirit, that tradition, and that unwritten law.”
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Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Political Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Longing
William Wilfred Campbell, often known simply as Wilfred Campbell, stands as one of the most distinctive voices in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian literature. A member of the Confederation Poets—the group that gave Canada its first truly national literary flowering after 1867—he captured the raw, majestic spirit of the Canadian landscape with a passion that still stirs the imagination today. His…
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Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Wonder, Tenderness
