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    The Five Nations: “My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand”
    The Five Nations: “My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand”
    The Five Nations: “My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand”
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    The Five Nations: “My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand”

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    Rudyard Kipling: A great Victorian, a great writer of Empire, a great man.

    Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of prose and poetry in the late 19th and 20th Century and awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1907.

    Born in Bombay on 30th December 1865, as was the custom in those days, he and his sister were sent back to England when he was 5. The ill-treatment and cruelty by the couple who they boarded with in Portsmouth, Kipling himself suggested, contributed to the onset of his literary life. This was further enhanced by his return to India at age 16 to work on a local paper, as not only did this result in him writing constantly but also made him explore issues of identity and national allegiance which pervade much of his work.

    Whilst he is best remembered for his classic children’s stories and his popular poem ‘If…’ he is also regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateJun 12, 2019
    ISBN9781787806191
    The Five Nations: “My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand”
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.

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