It is believed that at one point he was offered poet laureateship and on several occasions considered for knighthood, but he refused them. That he was also a prodigiously gifted writer who created works of inarguable greatness hardly matters anymore, at least not in many classrooms, where Kipling remains politically toxic.” He was a prolific writer whose children’s books are revered as classics of children’s literature. In the New Yorker, Charles McGrath remarked “Kipling has been variously labelled a colonialist, a jingoist, a racist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, a right-wing imperialist warmonger and-though some scholars have argued that his views were more complicated than he is given credit for-to some degree he was all those things.

After his marriage, he lived for some years in Vermont, USA. Later he returned to India to begin his career as a journalist but soon gave it up to return to his home country, where he concentrated full time on writing. He was born in British India in the middle of the nineteenth century, he was sent to England at the age of six for his further education. Joseph Rudyard Kipling, also called Rudyard Kipling, was an English poet, short story writer and a novelist, chiefly remembered for his works for children and support for British imperialism. ” I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) their names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who,” said by one of the greatest poets of Victorian Epoch.

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