Selected Poems
$25.02
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2001
Summary
“I have come to have a feeling, almost a superstition, that it is a kind of obligation laid upon me to testify for Rudyard Kipling whenever the opportunity presents itself” - T. S. Eliot
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age.
Arranged in chronological order, this diverse select…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140424317 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140424318 |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling, Peter Keating |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 but spent most of his childhood in England. He returned to India in 1881 as a journalist and also wrote stories, sketches and poems. His literary reputation was established with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). Today he is best remembered for The Jungle Book and Kim. He was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907.
Before his retirement, Peter Keating was reader in English at Edinburgh. He is now a full-time writer.
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