Collected Poems Of Rudyard Kipling

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This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Includes:: all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate & he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms & popular forms of speech & Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues & extended ballads. He is often thought of as glorifying war militarism & the British Empire but an attentive reading of the poems does not confirm that view. This edition reprints George Orwell's hard-hitting account of Kipling's poems first published in 1942 & generally regarded as one of the most important contributions to critical discussion of Kipling