The Poetry Of Rudyard Kipling - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780005091 ISBN 13: 9781780005096

Publisher: Portable Poetry, 2012

Synopsis

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage.Here we look at the works of Rudyard Kipling; that great Victorian, that great writer of Empire, that great man; from ‘The Jungle Book’ to ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ to a great and voluminous poet with works of the calibre of ‘If’ and ‘On The Road To Mandalay’ a man at the top of his craft and always aware of his affect on the minds of us mere mortals.With our almost religious zeal to categorise and pigeon hole everything it should come as little surprise that one of the poems we learnt at school should so regularly be voted the best ever poem. Whether ‘If..’ deserves that credit or not is irrelevant to this empire wandering artist who was not only a fine story teller but a great poet of the Empire, its people and views. In today’ society some of what he had to say was undoubtedly wrong but of its time and we can learn much from that as well as all that was good about his other work.Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780005091
• ISBN 13: 9781780005096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44