The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling

Kipling, Rudyard

 
9780007202331: The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling
ISBN 10: 0007202334 ISBN 13: 9780007202331
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2005

Synopsis

A generous selection of Kipling’s eminently quotable works, including the Nation’s Favourite Poem “If-”, “Mandalay” and the moving “Recessional”.

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Review

“the sheer vigour, conviction and humanity – touchingly communicated by the stellar cast – still have the power to stir the blood.”
Sunday Times 6/7/97

“a treat for anyone who loves words and poetry”
Oxford Times 18/4/97

From the Back Cover

There is in the eminently quotable lines of Kipling's poetry a varying shimmer of greatness. His poems convey strong emotions of bitterness, humanity and sentiment. They are poems of kinship with humankind, of nobility, of reflected glory and the futilities of our own time.

· The Law of the Jungle
· Recessional
· Song of the Galley-Slaves
· To Thomas Atkins
· The Way through the Woods
· A Song of the English: The Song of the Dead II
· If -
· The Ballad of East and West
· Gunga Din
· The Ladies
· 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy'
· Mandalay
· Tommy
· Danny Deever
· Prelude to Departmental Ditties
· The Vampire
· When Earth's Last Picture is Painted
· The White Man's Burden
· In the Neolithic Age
· The Female of the Species
· Gentlemen-Rankers
· Shillin' a Day
· Boots
· Outsong in the Jungle
· Mother o'mine
· Chapter headings from The Jungle Books
· The Betrothed

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Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0007202334
ISBN 13 
9780007202331
Binding
Audio CD

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