Early Verse, 1879-89: Unpublished, Uncollected and Rarely Collected Poems - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019812323X ISBN 13: 9780198123231

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

This volume collects over three hundred of Kipling's early poems, gathered from a wide variety of sources: many exist only in manuscript form, others were published in Anglo-Indian newspapers, and still others can be found only in obscure editions. All were written between 1879-1889, during Kipling's years as a precocious school-boy and as a young journalist in India. Andrew Rutherford draws on unpublished correspondence and the files of Anglo-Indian newspapers fo reveal the ways in which many of the verses relate to issues, events and personalities of the day, or to aspects of Kipling's own experience. The Early Verse of Kipling is a remarkable extension of the canon, and a major contribution to our understanding of the poet at the formative stage of his literary career.

About this title

About the Author

About the Editor: Andrew Rutherford is Warden of Goldsmith's College, University of London. He is the General Editor of Kipling in The World's Classics.

Synopsis

This volume contains over three hundred poems by Kipling, none of which appears in the `Definitive Edition' of his verse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019812323X
• ISBN 13: 9780198123231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 516