T.S Eliot 1888-1965 est un poète, dramaturge et critique littéraire américain devenu britannique, prix Nobel 1948. Il fait paraitre une sélection de poèmes et un essai qui constitue une étape importante de la réception et de la critique littéraire de Kipling : 
Choice of Kipling's Verse, made by T. S. Eliot, with an essay on Rudyard Kipling  Faber and Faber in UK, and by Charles Scribner's Sons in U.S.A.1941

L'essai reconnait à Kipling, entre fiction et poésie une place particulière et originale, qu'Eliot cherche à définir, à la fois dans sa manière d'écrire et dans sa biographie. 
Eliot distingue Verse et Poetry. Poetry renvoyant à la poésie " pure" et Verse à une projet différent dans lequel l'intention est primordiale et le vers le moyen d'y parvenir. Ce n'est pas une critique négative pour Eliot mais la reconnaissance d'une singularité : Il n' a pas échoué en choisissant le Verse, parce que cela lui a permis de faire ce que la Poetry ne pouvait pas faire. 

L'essai de T.S Eliot a été traduit en Francais :   Kipling, Poèmes choisis par T.S Eliot, Amalthée, traduit par J.Castier. Robert Laffont. 1949. 
Pour lire l'avant-propos de Jules Castier
Par ailleurs ces poèmes ont pu être traduits dans leur recueil d'origine par d'autres traducteurs que Castier. 

Il est intéressant de voir les poèmes que le poète Eliot a choisi chez Kipling, et cela peut être une excellente manière de découvrir ses poèmes les plus remarquables, Eliot ayant fait une très pertinente sélection  : 

Nombre par recueil : 
Barrack-Room Ballads — 31
The Seven Seas — 18
The Five Nations — 19
Rewards and Fairies — 14
Puck of Pook’s Hill — 12
The Years Between — 11
Departmental Ditties — 4
The Jungle Book — 3
Debits and Credits — 2
Songs from Books — 1
The Second Jungle Book — 1
Limits and Renewals — 1
? — 4
Total — 121

Sommaire et recueil d'origine : Les titres gris soulignés renvoient  aux poèmes déjà traduits sur ce site=> recueil original

"L'Envoi" => Departmental Ditties
"Dedication" => Barrack-Room Ballads 
"Sestina of the Tramp-Royal" => The Seven Seas
"The Greek National Anthem" => Departmental Ditties
"The Broken Men" => The Seven Seas => 
"Gethsemane" (1914–18) => The Years between
"The Song of the Banjo"=> The Seven Seas
"The Pro-Consuls"=> The Five Nations 
"McAndrew's Hymn"=> The Seven Seas
"The Mary Gloster" => The Seven Seas
"The Ballad of the 'Bolivar'" The Seven Seas
"A Song in Storm" => The Seven Seas
"The Last Chantey"=> The Seven Seas
"The Long Trail"=> Barrack-Room Ballads 
"Ave Imperatrix!" => Departmental Ditties (?)
"The Song of the English" => The seven Seas
            —The Song of the English (prologue)
            — The Coastwise Lights
            — The Song of the Dead
            — The Deep-See Cable
            — The Song of the Sons
            — The Song of the Cities
            — England’s Answer
"The Gipsy Trail" => The Five Nations
"Our Lady of the Snows" => The Five nations
"The Irish Guards" => The Years Between
"The Settler" => The Five Nations
"Sussex" => Rewards and Fairies
"The Vampire" => The Five Nations
"When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted"=>The Seven Seas
"The Ballad of East and West" =>Barrack-Room Ballads
"Gehazi" (1915) => The Years Between
"Et Dona Ferentes" => The Five Nations
"The Holy War" => The Five Nations
"France" (1913) =>  The Years Between
"The Bell Buoy" => The Five Nations
"Mesopotamia" => The Years Between
"The Islanders" => The Five Nations 
"The Veterans"=> The Years Between
"The Dykes" => The Five Nations
"The White Man's Burden"=> The Five Nations
"Hymn Before Action" => The Seven Seas
"Recessional" => The Five Nations
"'For All We Have and Are'" => The Years Between
"The Benefactors" => The Years Between
"The Craftsman"  => Rewards and Fairies
"Samuel Pepys" => Rewards and Faires
"'When 'Omer Smote 'Is Bloomin' Lyre'" => departmental Ditties
"Tomlinson" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Last Rhyme of True Thomas" => Rewards and Fairies
"The Sons of Martha"=>  The Years Between
"Epitaphs of the War" => The Years Between 
"'Bobs'" (1898) => The Seven seas
"Danny Deever"=> Barack-Room Ballads
"Tommy"=> Barrack-Room Ballads
"'Fuzzy-Wuzzy'"=> Barrack-Room Ballads"
Screw-Guns" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"Gunga Din"=>Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Widow at Windsor"=> Barrack-Room Ballads
"Belts" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Young British Soldier" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"Mandalay"=> Barrack-Room Ballads
"Troopin'"=> Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Widow's Party" =>Barrack-Room Ballads
"Gentlemen-Rankers" Barrack-Room Ballads
"Private Ortheris's Song" (ws, "My girl she gave me....") => Barrack-Room Ballads
"Shillin' a Day" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"'Back to the Army Again'" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"'Birds of Prey' March" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"'Soldier an' Sailor Too'"  =>Barrack-Room Ballads
"Sappers" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"That Day"=> Barrack-Room Ballads
"'The Men that Fought at Minden'" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Ladies" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"'Follow me 'ome'" =>The Seven Seas
"The Sergeant's Weddin'" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"The 'Eathen" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"'For to Admire'" =>Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Absent-Minded Beggar"=> The Five Nations 
"Chant-Pagan" => The Seven Seas
"Boots"=>  The Five Nations 
"The Married Man" => Barrack-Room Ballads
"Stellenbosch" =>  The Five Nations 
"Piet" =>  The Five Nations 
"Ubique"=> Barrack-Room Ballads
"The Return" : ?
"Cities and Thrones and Powers" => Puck of Pook's Hill
"The Recall" => The Seven Seas
"Puck's Song"=> Puck of Pook's Hill
"The Way Through the Woods" => Rewards and Fairies
"A Three-Part Song" => Rewards and Fairies
"The Run of the Downs" => Rewards and Fairies
"Sir Richard's Song (A.D. 1066)"=> Rewards and Fairies
"A Tree Song (A.D. 1200)"=> Rewards and Fairies
"A Charm" => Rewards and Fairies
"Chapter Headings" The Jungle Books
"Cold Iron" => Rewards and Fairies
"'My New-Cut Ashlar'" => The Seven Seas
"Non Nobis Domine!" =>Rewards and Fairies
"The Waster" (1930) => Limits and Renawals
"Harp Song of the Dane Women" => Puck of Pook's Hill
"A St. Helena Lullaby" => Rewards and Fairies
"Road Song of the Bandar-Log" => The Jungle Book
"A British-Roman Song => Puck of Pook's Hill
"A Pict Song"=> Puck of Pook's Hill
"The Law of the Jungle"=> The Second Jungle Book
"MacDonough's Song" =>  The Five Nations 
"The Heritage" => The Five Nations
"Song of the Fifth River=> The Seven Seas
"The Children's Song" : The Jungle Book
"If—"=> Rewards and Fairies
"A Translation" => The Seven Seas
"The Land" =>  The Five Nations 
"The Queen's Men" ?
"Mine Sweepers"=>  The Years Between
"The Love Song of Har Dyal" 
"Mowgli's Song Against People" => The Jungle Book
"'The Trade'" => The Five Nations 
"The Runes on Weland's Sword"=> Puck of Pook's Hill
"Song of the Galley-Slaves" => Puck of Pook's Hill 
"The Roman Centurion's Song"=> Puck of Pook's Hill
"Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016)"=> Puck of Pook's Hill
"Norman and Saxon (A.D. 1100)" => Puck of Pook's Hill
"Edgehill Fight" => Puck of Pook's Hill
"The Dutch in the Medway (1664-72)" => School History of England
"The Secret of the Machines" => Debits ans Credits
"Gertrude's Prayer" => ?
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" => The Years Between
"The Storm Cone" => The Seven Seas
"The Appeal" => The Years Between