Kipling, Rudyard

Description

Type: Signature
Description: (1865-1936) English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer, born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man’s Burden (1899), and If– (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children’s books are classics. In the late 19^th-early 20th centuries, Kipling was among England’s most popular writers. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Kipling’s subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age and contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20^th century. A literary critic wrote: “[Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.”

Frameable signed 3 x 4 ¼ slip.

Condition: Very Good