The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling
Contributors: John Whitehead (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: International Specialized Book Services
Published: May 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780952047155
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Works by individual poets: 19th century; Poetry; Literary Criticism
Description: For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their military context is necessary if he is to appreciate them in their full glory. John Whitehead, critic and biographer who himself served with the Indian Army in Burma, has provided this in full measure in his entertaining and scholarly Introduction and comprehensive textual Notes. This Centenary Edition of the ballads is unlikely ever to be superseded.