This anthology of Kipling's most famous poems 'If,' 'Mandalay,' 'Gunga Din' is taken from the Naxos AudioBooks Great Poets series. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain's literary tradition, and is regarded more generously now as a master of popular verse. It is often forgotten that he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.