The burden of a white man. Kipling R.J.

Redyard Kipling is a great English poet and writer, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in British India in the family of a decorator and sculptor; Seven years by the clan was sent to England, where he studied at a private boarding house, and then at a closed school with half -naked discipline. At seventeen, he returned to India and began to engage in journalism, wrote poems and stories. Ten years later, Kipling became the most famous British writer. His world fame over time has much surpassed popularity in England, where the glory of the singer of the British Empire was entrenched in Kipling. In Russia, a special attitude and special love to the creativity of Iron Redard, and the best translations of his poems have long become the fact of Russian poetry.

In this collection, along with the famous translations of S. Marshak, K. Simonov, A. Onoshkovich-Yatsins, also modern translations are also presented, which sometimes have a completely different sound and reflect a new view of the creativity of Redyard Kipling.