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Title: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0-486-26471-8 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good starting point
Comment: Fifty years ago some of the poems in this book were part of the mental baggage of every adult Engish speaker. These days Kipling's reputation has taken a hammering. It's easy to brand him rascist by quoting "the white man's burden" or lines like: "he was white clear white inside" from gunga din and forgetting the last three lines of the same poem, Imperialistic, mysoginist or whatever is currently unfashionable. Even as a poet he hasn't recovered from the movement of poetry during the twentieth century from the reader to the university. You don't need critics to "explain Kipling". There's not a lot your average university critic can say about Kipling's verse, he doesn't need copious critical commentary, and since he doesn't offer the critic much hope of publication, he's been neglected or damned with faint praise: "an ability to make the commonplace memorable" Well, invest a dollar and find out for yourself. He sings. "If" is, whatever you think of the last line, full of fine advice. "In the neolithic age" is something all writers and critics should read and remember and no one summed up the life of the British private soldier better. Dover thrift continue to provide an excellent service making good, cheap editions, free of any critical clutter, available so that readers can read for themselves. The only niggle with htis book is that Kiplin does need a glossary and the glossary in this book is a little too haphazard.
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Title: The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0192836293 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Rudyard Kipling Complete Verse: Definitive Edition by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 038526089X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 27 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Rudyard Kipling, Robert Gottlieb ISBN: 0679435921 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: War Stories and Poems (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0192836862 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Kim (Penguin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said ISBN: 0140183523 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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