100 poems
Subtitle: old and new
By: Rudyard Kipling ; selected and edited by Thomas Pinney
Contributors: Pinney, Thomas, editor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781107050440
Subjects: English poetry
Other titles: One hundred poems old and new
Description: "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Thomas Pinney brings together a selection of well-established favourites and the best of the previously uncollected and unpublished poems from The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling (2013).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 Discovered by Pinney in an array of unlikely hiding places, the uncollected and unpublished poems show the diversity and development of Kipling's talent over his lifetime, and, when combined with long-held favourites, offer readers a unique opportunity to experience Kipling's mastery of poetry in a new way."--Publisher description.
Notes: Poems.

"The idea of this selection from Rudyard Kipling's many poems is to contrast the familiar with the unfamiliar: the list includes 26 of the first kind, and 74 of the second. Any collection will have those first 26; no other collection will have all 74 of the other kind ... they have rested, unvisited, in inaccessible Indian newspapers, in manuscript, in the files of  long-dead magazines."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes