White Man's Burden

Rudyard Kipling is a great English poet and writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in British India into the family of a decorator and sculptor; At the age of seven he was sent to England, where he studied at a private boarding school, and then at a closed school with semi-military discipline. At the age of seventeen he returned to India and began to engage in journalism, writing poetry and stories. Ten years later, Kipling became the most famous British writer. His world fame over time far surpassed his popularity in England, where Kipling gained fame as the singer of the British Empire. In Russia, there is a special attitude and special love for the work of the “iron Rudyard”, and the best translations of his poems have long become a fact of Russian poetry. This collection, along with the well-known, classic translations of S. Marshak, K. Simonov, A. Onoshkovich-Yatsyna, also presents modern translations, which sometimes have a completely different sound and reflect a new look at the work of Rudyard Kipling.