Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling - Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints Author:Rudyard Kipling 1911. Collection of poetry from Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.