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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.
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.
Kipling in particular was very affected by the war, and his son had disappeared in 1915 during the Battle of Loos. [2] Kipling was a war hawk and a staunch supporter of the Allies, whom he viewed as standing in the way of the German forces. According to scholar Irene de Angelis "Kipling equated Germany’s policy of Schreklichkeit in Belgium ...
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 ...
Main menu. Main menu. move to ... Limits and Renewals is a short story collection published by Rudyard Kipling in 1932. [1] ... This page was last edited on 15 ...
[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 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.
Front cover of the US first edition [1] (Doubleday, Page & Co., October 1904) Traffics and Discoveries is a collection of poems and short stories by Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan and Co. of London and Doubleday, Page of New York in 1904. [1] [2] Stories (11): The Captive; The Bonds of Discipline; A Sahibs' War