A substantial collection of Kipling’s distinctive poetic voices
Vintage Fair Condition - Cloth boards/spine heavily faded, stained and rubbed, corners/spine ends worn. Both inner hinges split with exposed mesh, endpapers scribbled. Page edges browned/marked, foxing inside. Reprinted May 1942.
This Definitive Edition gathers Rudyard Kipling’s verse in a substantial volume that reveals the range of his subjects, forms and speaking voices. Soldiers, travellers, workers and observers of public life appear alongside poems concerned with landscape, memory, responsibility and belonging. Narrative energy and strongly patterned rhythms give much of the writing its immediacy, while quieter passages show a more reflective side. Poems such as Arithmetic on the Frontier, The Veterans and The Dykes connect individual experience with the larger social and political concerns that shaped Kipling’s world. The collection also records the imperial assumptions and historical outlook of his period. It offers readers a broad encounter with a writer whose verse moves between storytelling, song, argument and an intense awareness of the demands placed upon people.
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