Boots (poem) Boots (poem) "Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection "The Five Nations". "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching by forced marches in South Africa during the Second Boer War (which had ended in 1902). It has been said that if the first four words in each line are read at the rate of two words to the second, that gives the time to which the British foot soldier was accustomed to march. The poem was set to music for low male
House of the Tragic Poet of many works of fiction and poetry. Among the more famous works is Lord Edward Bulwer Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii", in which the author invents the personal life of the owner, Glaucus, but accurately describes the house's details. "In the Redness of Dawn" by author Waldemar Kaden depicts the house as being inhabited by a Christian man named Gaius Sabinus. Another well-known work is Vladimir Janovic's "The House of the Tragic Poet", an epic poem based on images from the mosaic and fresco images throughout the villa. Art historians and Classics scholars have long been fascinated by the