English hymnwriters
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
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Christina Rossetti
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.
1 December 2011
Featuring: Dinah Birch, Rhian Williams, Nicholas Shrimpton
CultureVictorian women writersSonneteersEnglish fantasy writersAnglican saintsBurials at Highgate CemeteryEnglish hymnwritersEnglish women poetsWriters from the London Borough of Camden19th-century British writersPoets from London19th-century English women writersBritish people of Italian descent, English people of Italian descent, Polidori-Rossetti familyVictorian poetsRudyard Kipling
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling, a writer sometimes described as the poet of empire.
16 October 2014
Featuring: Howard Booth, Daniel Karlin, Jan Montefiore
Culture20th-century English novelistsMythopoeic writers19th-century English short story writersNobel laureates in Literature20th-century English male writers20th-century English poetsEnglish male short story writersBurials at Westminster AbbeyEnglish hymnwritersVictorian novelists19th-century English novelistsEnglish-language poets from IndiaMaritime writers19th-century English non-fiction writersEnglish children's writersFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandRectors of the University of St AndrewsEnglish science fiction writersEnglish male novelistsFellows of the Royal Society of Literature20th-century English memoiristsBritish Nobel laureates19th-century English poetsDeaths from ulcersEnglish Nobel laureatesEnglish anti-fascistsEnglish people of Scottish descentPeople of the Victorian era