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  2. Tommy (Kipling poem) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Barrack-Room Ballads - Wikipedia

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    In Eliot's view, this makes Kipling a 'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more difficult in 1941 than in Kipling's time, as people no longer had the music hall to inspire them. [4] Eliot thought Kipling's ballads unusual, also, in that Kipling had been careful to make it possible to absorb each ballad's message on a single hearing.

  4. Limits and Renewals - Wikipedia

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    Limits and Renewals is a short story collection published by Rudyard Kipling in 1932. [1] Contents ... This page was last edited on 15 April 2022, at 18:47 (UTC).

  5. Soldiers Three - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Danny Deever - Wikipedia

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    Rudyard Kipling "Danny Deever" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in India for murder. His execution ...

  7. The Absent-Minded Beggar - Wikipedia

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    Kipling in his study in Naulakha ca. 1895 "The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration of a wounded but defiant British soldier, "A Gentleman in Kharki", by Richard Caton Woodville.

  8. The Day's Work - Wikipedia

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    The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in The Day's Work , as there are in many other of Kipling's collections.

  9. The Light That Failed - Wikipedia

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    The Light That Failed is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in January 1891. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan and Port Said.