“Stripped of his historical baggage, Kipling re-emerges as England’s Homer.”
The Sunday Times “Rudyard Kipling’s verse has given – and continues to give – great pleasure to millions of people, many of them not otherwise lovers of poetry.”
juliet tow nsend The Spectator
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100 Poems
thomas pinney is Professor of English emeritus at Pomona College, Claremont, California, and editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2013).
Early in 2013 a large number of poems by Rudyard Kipling – many of them completely unknown – were published for the first time. Here, the editor Thomas Pinney brings together the best of the previously uncollected and unpublished poems alongside old favorites, offering readers the chance to appreciate Kipling’s talent afresh.
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Poems Ol d a n d N e w EXTRACT
rudyard kipling (1865–1936), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of one of the most popular poems in the English language, “If,” has long captured the interest of poetry lovers. Here, Thomas Pinney brings together a selection of well-established favorites and the best of the previously uncollected and unpublished poems from The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2013). The poems, whether exploring the colonial experience, exposing the injustice of war, or appreciating the beauties of nature, resonate with Kipling’s keen observations of his world and strong sense of poetic rhythm. Discovered by Pinney in an array of unlikely hiding places, the uncollected and unpublished poems show the diversity and development of Kipling’s talent over his lifetime, and, when combined with long-held favorites, offer readers a unique opportunity to experience Kipling’s mastery of poetry in a new way.