A song of the English
The work of Rudyard Kipling will forever be associated with an era in which the sun never set on the British Empire; even George Orwell once noted that Kipling was a "prophet of British imperialism." In Kipling's A Song of the English, the experience of British imperialism is hauntingly related through a series of poems on English seafarers, the casualties of imperialist expansion, and the exotic and far-flung capitals of the British Empire. With stunning illustrations by prominent turn-of-the-century illustrator W. Heath Robinson, this 1909 volume provides a poignant glimpse at this bygone period of history
eBook, English, 1909
Rudyard Kipling
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1909