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Rudyard Kipling, né à Bombay, en Inde britannique, le 30 décembre 1865 et mort à Londres, le 18 janvier 1936, est un écrivain britannique.

Ses ouvrages pour la jeunesse ont connu dès leur parution un succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti, notamment Le Livre de la jungle , Le Second Livre de la jungle , Histoires comme ça , Puck, lutin de la colline . Il est également l'auteur du roman Kim , de poèmes et de nouvelles, dont L'Homme qui voulut être roi et le recueil Simples contes des collines . Il a été considéré comme un « innovateur dans l'art de la nouvelle », un précurseur de la science-fiction, et l'un des plus grands auteurs de la littérature de jeunesse. Son œuvre manifeste un talent pour la narration qui s'est exprimé dans des formes variées.



De la fin du XIXe siècle au milieu du XXe siècle, Kipling est resté l'un des auteurs les plus populaires de la langue anglaise. L'écrivain Henry James écrit à son sujet :

« Kipling me touche personnellement, comme l'homme de génie le plus complet que j'aie jamais connu. »



En 1907, il est le premier auteur de langue anglaise à recevoir le prix Nobel de littérature, et le plus jeune à l'avoir reçu . Par la suite, il a refusé d'être anobli.

Cependant, Kipling a été souvent considéré comme un « prophète de l'impérialisme britannique », selon l'expression de George Orwell. La controverse au sujet des préjugés et du militarisme qui seraient présents dans son œuvre a traversé tout le XXe siècle.



Selon le critique littéraire Douglas Kerr :

« Il reste un auteur qui inspire des réactions de rejet passionnées, et sa place dans l'histoire littéraire et culturelle est loin d'être solidement établie. Cependant, à l'heure où les empires européens sont en repli, il est reconnu comme un interprète incomparable, sinon controversé, de la manière dont l'empire était vécu. Cela, ajouté à son extraordinaire génie narratif, lui donne une force qu'on ne peut que reconnaître. » Wikipedia  

✵ 30. décembre 1865 – 18. janvier 1936   •   Autres noms Джозеф Редьярд Киплинг, ራድየርድ ክፕሊንግ
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Rudyard Kipling: Citations en anglais

“Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again.”

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Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stanza 1 (1906).
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind!”

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Rudyard Kipling livre The Jungle Book

Road-Song of the Bandar-Log.
The Jungle Book (1894)

“Body and spirit I surrendered whole
To harsh instructors—and received a soul…
If mortal man could change me through and through
From all I was—What may the God not do?”

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The Wonder
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“From little towns in a far land we came,
To save our honour and a world aflame.
By little towns in a far land we sleep,
And trust the world we won for you to keep.”

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Canadian Memorial (2).
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“Men and women may sometimes, after great effort, achieve a creditable lie; but the house, which is their temple, cannot say anything save the truth of those who have lived in it.”

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"They," published in Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Other works

“God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

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Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 1.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

“To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,
To my brethren in their sorrow overseas,
Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed,
And a trooper of the Empress, if you please.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!”

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Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law —
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

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Stanza 4.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

“I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts,
An' four o' the lot was prime.
One was an 'arf-caste widow,
One was a woman at Prome,
One was the wife of a jemadar-sais,
An' one is a girl at 'ome.”

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The Ladies, Stanza 1 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again:
Out o' the cold an' the rain, sergeant,
Out o' the cold an' the rain.”

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Back to the Army Again, refrain (1894).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State,
They arrive at their conclusions—largely inarticulate.
Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none:
But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done.”

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The Puzzler http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/puzzler.html, Stanza 3 (1909).
Other works

“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”

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Said to author and critic André Maurois c. 1930, on the subject of the transformation of Germany.
Quoted in Maurois, The Art of Writing, “The Writer's Craft,” sct. 2 (1960).
Other works

“Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.”

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A Tree Song,
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do—hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Screw-Guns, Stanza 6.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Now these are the Laws of the jungle, and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!”

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Rudyard Kipling livre The Second Jungle Book

The Law of the Jungle, Stanza 19.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)

“Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.”

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The Ballad of the King's Jest, Stanza 4
Other works

“So I'll meet 'im later on
At the place where 'e is gone—
Where it's always double drill and no canteen.
'E'll be squattin' on the coals
Givin' drink to poor damned souls,
An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
Yes, Din! Din! Din!
You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”

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Gunga Din, Stanza 5.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier…”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Young British Soldier, Stanza 9.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“Five and twenty ponies
Trotting through the dark—
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk.
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie—
Watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by!”

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A Smuggler's Song.
Puck of Pook's Hill 1906

“Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Plain Tales from the Hills

False Dawn.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took—the same as me!”

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When 'Omer Smote 'is Bloomin' Lyre http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/omersmote.html, Stanza 1 (1894).
Other works

“It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

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The Lesson, Stanza 8 (1899-1902).
Other works

“For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, Stanza VIII.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier…”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Young British Soldier, Stanza 12.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“I have written the tale of our life
For a sheltered people's mirth,
In jesting guise—but ye are wise,
And ye know what the jest is worth.”

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Prelude Stanza 3.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

“The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds—
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;
But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',
They're just the same as you an' me a-plyin' up an' down!”

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The Liner She's a Lady, Stanza 1 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse—soldier an' sailor too.”

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"Soldier an' Sailor Too", Stanza 2 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

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