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In many of Kipling’s poems he glorified the life of the common soldier, and he came to be seen as the People’s Laureate and the poet of the British Empire. In 1907 he was the first English language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
American composers who have set Kipling’s poems include Henry Burleigh, Walter Damrosch, Percy Grainger, Charles Ives, Ned Rorem, and John Philip Sousa.
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Way of the River
Composer(s): Robert G. Patterson
Song(s): 1. from “Sun-Down Poem” (Whitman)
2. Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce)
3. Psalm 65:9-12 (Douay-Rheims)
4. from “The Elephant's Child” (Kipling)
5. The Ballad of Poor Susan (Wordsworth) Interlude
6. The River/Deep River (Teasdale/Anonymous)