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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 ...
Both Kipling and Sullivan declined proffered fees for creating the song. [9] Artist Richard Caton Woodville, within several days, provided an illustration, titled "A Gentleman in Kharki", [Note 1] showing a wounded but defiant British Tommy in battle. This illustration was included in "art editions" of the poem and song. [10]
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).
In 1886, the Gazette was taken over by a new editor, who began publishing Kipling's short stories and poetry to "put some sparkle" into the paper. [1] Later that year, a first volume of the poems was published as Departmental Ditties, and a volume of short stories, Plain Tales from the Hills, followed in 1887. [2]
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 ...
The title comes from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, in which Kipling describes foot soldiers as "the thin red line of 'eroes". Kipling's poem is based on the 1854 action of British soldiers during the Crimean War called The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava) .