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Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [ 3 ] It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war.
T. S. Eliot, in his essay on Kipling for his 1941 anthology A Choice of Kipling's Verse, [2] writes that many writers have written verse without writing poetry, but that Kipling was unusual in that he did write poetry without setting out to do so. [3] In Eliot's view, this makes Kipling a 'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more ...
[1] Andrew Lycett, in his biography of Kipling, called it a "grown-up novel by an emotionally immature man." [8] It has been variously derided as "sentimental, unstructured, melodramatic, chauvinistic, and implausible." [4] Kipling admitted in his autobiography that the novel was a conte (short tale of adventure) and not a built book. [9]
First publication. The first publication of a collection of seven stories called Soldiers Three was as No 1 of A.H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library, a slim volume of 97 pages printed at the “Pioneer” Press, Allahabad in 1888 called Soldiers Three: a collection of stories setting forth certain passages in the lives and adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, Stanley Ortheris and ...
Posthumous collections of Kipling's poems include: Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition. A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T. S. Eliot (Faber and Faber, 1941). Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879–1889 : unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.
[6] 1914-1918-online described the word as an example of British propaganda during World War I, [7] and has regularly been given as an example of anti-German sentiment. [6] Some critics, such as Kingsley Amis , have defended Kipling, arguing that "“the Hun” is a metaphor for “the barbarian, the enemy of decent values”, and “the gate ...
The book contains 13 short stories, which were mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Four of the stories contained in The Day's Work include anthropomorphic characters. [1] "The Bridge-Builders" "A Walking Delegate" "The Ship that Found Herself" "The Tomb of His Ancestors" "The Devil and the Deep Sea"
First edition (publ. Doubleday Page) Debits and Credits is a 1926 collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, an English writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. Four of the poems that accompany the stories are whimsically presented as translations from the "Bk.