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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

“We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

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

“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes,
It will vanish and the stars will shine again,
Because, for all our power and weight and size,
We are nothing more than children of your brain!”

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The Secret of the Machines, Stanza 8.
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“God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Belovèd over all.”

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Sussex http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/sussex.html, Stanza 1 (1902).
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“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre The Story of the Gadsbys

The Story of the Gadsbys (1888), "Poor Dear Mamma".
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“By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:
“Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!””

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

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

“E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive
An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

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

“Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.”

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Rudyard Kipling The White Man's Burden

The White Man's Burden, Stanza 1 (1899).
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“Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."”

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The Naulahka http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/Naulahka/index.html, ch. 5 (1892).
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“We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We're little black sheep who've gone astray,
Baa—aa—aa!
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Gentlemen-Rankers, refrain
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“… it's always best to tell the truth.”

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The Gardener (1925) .
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“Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.”

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Letter to Sidney Colvin (1928).
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“Oh the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin'-fishes play
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China 'crost the Bay!”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

Mandalay.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“He did his best to interest the girl in himself—that is to say, his work—and she, after the manner of women, did her best to appear interested in, what behind his back, she called "Mr. Wressley's Wajahs"; for she lisped very prettily. She did not understand one little thing about them, but she acted as if she did. Men have married on that sort of error before now.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Plain Tales from the Hills

Wressley of the Foreign Office.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.”

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A Doctor's Work, an address at Middlesex Hospital (October 1908).
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Rudyard Kipling citation: “Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”

“Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.”

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The Light That Failed http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TheLightThatFailed/index.html, ch. 11 (1890-1891).
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“Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Barrack-Room Ballads

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

“That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walk down a street.”

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Mrs. Bathurst http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TrafficsDiscoveries/bathurst.html (1904).
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“Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro—
And what should they know of England who only England know?”

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The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891).
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“Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.”

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Rudyard Kipling livre Plain Tales from the Hills

Watches of the Night.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“I've just read that I'm dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.”

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Letter to a magazine that had mistakenly published the announcement of his death.
Quoted by: Ashwin Sanghi, 13 STEPS TO BLOODY GOOD LUCK https://books.google.nl/books?id=MYU2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&lpg=PT94&dq=rudyard+kipling+%22read+that+I%27m+dead%22&source=bl&ots=hd9xVJsJRN&sig=9Cd4oIYC1gLU-VufOCjVL3z4YDc&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKvIKa1qzMAhUBuBoKHbftAo4Q6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=rudyard%20kipling%20%22read%20that%20I'm%20dead%22&f=false, westland ltd, 2014

“Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the foam—she 'as millions at 'ome,
An' she pays us poor beggars in red.”

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The Widow at Windsor, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“A Nation spoke to a Nation,
A Queen sent word to a Throne:
‘Daughter am I in my mother's house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I set my house in order,'
Said our Lady of the Snows.”

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Our Lady of the Snows http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/ourladysnows.html, Stanza 1 (1898).
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“Call a truce, then, to our labours let us feast with friends and neighbours,
And be merry as the custom of our caste;
For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after,
We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.”

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Christmas in India, Stanza 5.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

“Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges—
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!”

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The Explorer, Stanza 2 (1903).
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“When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!”

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L'Envoi, Stanza 1 (1896).
The Seven Seas (1896)

“Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!”

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The Glory of the Garden http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/english_history/glorygarden.html, Stanza 8.
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“Who hath desired the Sea?—the sight of salt water unbounded—
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?”

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The Sea and the Hills, Stanza 1 (1903).
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“Ever the wide world over, lass,
Ever the trail held true,
Over the world and under the world,
And back at the last to you.”

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The Gypsy Trail http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/gipsytrail.html, Stanza 2 (1892).
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“Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”

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The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).
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“There rise her timeless capitals of Empires daily born,
Whose plinths are laid at midnight, and whose streets are packed at morn;
And here come hired youths and maids that feign to love or sin
In tones like rusty razor-blades to tunes like smitten tin.”

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Naaman's Song http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LimitsRenewals/naamansong.html, Stanza 2.
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