b. 1865d. 1936
Rudyard Kipling
British author and poet Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, but educated in England. He achieved great fame early in his life for his poems, and then became known mostly for his short stories and novels, including The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and Captains Courageous.
Photo: Rudyard Kipling, public domain.
Audio
Danny Deever (op. 2, no. 7)
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Craig Rutenberg (piano)5:14
About
In many of Kipling’s poems he glorified the life of the common soldier, and he came to be seen as the People’s Laureate and the poet of the British Empire. In 1907 he was the first English language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
American composers who have set Kipling’s poems include Henry Burleigh, Walter Damrosch, Percy Grainger, Charles Ives, Ned Rorem, and John Philip Sousa.
Related Information
The Kipling Society
kiplingsociety.co.ukPoetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org/poets/rudyard-kiplingPoets.org
poets.org/poet/rudyard-kiplingProject Gutenberg
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/132Songs
A Dead Statesman1997 · Evidence of Things Not SeenNed RoremRudyard KiplingDanny Deever1897Walter DamroschRudyard KiplingEvidence of Things Not Seen1997Ned RoremW. H. Auden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Stephen Crane, Mark Doty, Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Monette, William Penn, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman, John Woolman, William Butler YeatsOn the Road to Mandalay1907Oley SpeaksRudyard KiplingTarrant Moss1902Charles IvesRudyard KiplingThe Eden-Rose1892 · Eleven Songs For Voice and Piano, Op. 26Arthur FooteRudyard KiplingTolerance1909Charles IvesRudyard KiplingWay of the River2011Robert G. PattersonAnonymous, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Sara Teasdale, Walt Whitman
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Sheet Music
Way of the River
Robert G. Patterson
1. from “Sun-Down Poem” (Whitman)
2. Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce)
3. Psalm 65:9-12 (Douay-Rheims)
4. from “The Elephant's Child” (Kipling)
5. The Ballad of Poor Susan (Wordsworth) Interlude
6. The River/Deep River (Teasdale/Anonymous)
2. Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce)
3. Psalm 65:9-12 (Douay-Rheims)
4. from “The Elephant's Child” (Kipling)
5. The Ballad of Poor Susan (Wordsworth) Interlude
6. The River/Deep River (Teasdale/Anonymous)