STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, (thanks, Will), I read poetry. I do it in private, of course. A little Atwood to cut deep, some Carol Ann Duffy to astonish, and always Rudyard Kipling's ...

DURING the last two or three years, we have often heard the lament that the Victorian era of poetry was closed; that with the death of Tennyson the last great voice had fallen silent; that only the ...