Rudyard Kipling: Complete Verse

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  2002

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  When Kipling died in 1936 he was considered second to none as a poet. Years before, when Tennyson was Laureate, he had described young Kipling as the only one with divine fire ; but in fact Kipling died in relative anonymity, his death overshadowed by George V's and his reputation dented by a Britain that saw him as outdated and imperialist. On the 23rd January King George was brought to lie in state in Westminster Hall, the same day as Kipling's ashes were quietly consigned to Poet's Corner. Kipling brings us such characters as Gunga Din, Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady in these peoms.

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  1990

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  M.M.Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions , demonstrates in her foreword that Rudyard Kipling could seek no more convinced and sympathetic an advocate than herself. She introduces us to Kipling's India and looks at the influences in his life that were responsible for his becoming the literary lion of the Empire. Kipling was the barrack-room balladeer and the unrivalled poet laureate of the common man. He was born in Bombay in 1865 and after schooling in England, returned to India and started his writing career. He settled in Sussex after the Boer War and concentrated on verse and short stories.

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  1990

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