Rudyard Kipling Bio

In 1871, Rudyard moved to England with his sister and stayed with his parent’s friends who lived in Southsea. He stayed there for three years feeling alone and abandoned. His parents never told him and his sister about the arrangement. While living there he met a girl named Florence Garrad. They were engaged but he broke it off. In 1878 Rudyard moved to the United Services College at Westward Hol in North Devonshire, England. The headmaster there knew Rudyard’s parents. Rudyard was a very apt student and accomplished a lot in the time he spent at the United Services College. He was very gifted and wrote many works in derivative verse and was the editor of the school’s newspaper. After his schooling Rudyard went back to his parents.

During this down period Kipling wrote works that today are known as masterpieces. His poetry was acclaimed too and George Orwell once said that Kipling was a “good bad poet”. His works reflected the views of imperialism or were inhumane, infantile, and sentimental. He was a failure at being a novelist and died on January 18, 1936. After his death Rudyard’s popularity began to tumble. The only people who would read his books were Imperialists and pro-fascists. Many critics shunned his works calling them racist. However the critics often got his politics confused with Rudyard’s life and philosophies. Finally in 1959 a good critic named J.M.S. Tomkins published a book, The Art of Rudyard Kipling, which did his works justice.

His family moved to a town near Sussex and suffered many hardships. His wife was hated by the villagers and his three children suffered extreme misfortune. His son John was killed in battle at Loos. Rudyard pressured John to be in the army even though he knew John had poor eyesight. His daughter, Josephine died from double pneumonia in New York which almost killed Rudyard and his wife. He began tumbling into a state of skepticism and depression. He became worse when he learned that his other daughter Elsi

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