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.