Rudyard Kipling

Departmental Ditties And Barrack Room Ballads

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Produktbeschreibung

A wave of memory and music, rippling through time, rises from the pages of a celebrated voice of empire and endurance. This is Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties And Barrack Room Ballads reimagined for today's reader: a war poetry collection that moves with the cadence of step-by-step march and the hush before a letter home. Through epic ballad verse and soldier life sketches, the poems carry a colloquial ballad style that feels both intimate and monumental-an incomparable british poetry anthology that sits at once in Victorian era britain and colonial india setting. It is a work of somber satirical verse tradition, framing empire with wit, grit, and humanity, inviting classic poetry readers and curious newcomers alike to hear the soldiers' voices and the satire that sharpened a nation. A note on literary and historical significance anchors the experience: these pieces illuminate the cultural fabric of imperial Britain and its war-poems lineage, offering a bridge from classroom pages to living rooms and study rooms. It is not merely the text of a beloved author, but a window into a culture and era, rendered with care for modern readers. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. A true artefact for educational classroom editions and refined collectors, merging heritage with enduring relevance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9789354756887
• ISBN-10: 9354756883
• Artikelnr.: 62207025

Autorenporträt

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.