This splendid continuous fertility of English genius, this unbroken poetic expression of English character and life from Chaucer to Rudyard ... of the sea. For the sea has touched Mr. Kipling's ...
Kipling was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, which lasted from 1899 to 1902, said Andrew Scragg, chairman of The Kipling Society. In early 1900, a force of 60,000 British troops ...