Indeed, such was the enthusiasm of his parents that, without telling him, they paid for the publication of his first book, Schoolboy Lyrics, a collection of twenty-three poems written when he was fifteen. From his boyhood to his death in 1936, Kipling wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of...
This tradition continued into the Middle Ages, but balance can be seen to emerge in the 12th and 13th centuries with the development of the gesta and in troubadours’ lyrics. Here, women are portrayed as beautiful and intelligent, respectful but also inaccessible ladies. In Poland, the new ...