Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Poems (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Fiction & Literature, Poetry
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling | ISBN: | 9781411435599 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble | Publication: | February 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN: | 9781411435599 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Publication: | February 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble |
| Language: | English |
The poems collected here are mostly light verse—“barrack-room ballads,” Kipling called them—inspired by Kipling’s early adventures as a newspaperman in British colonial India. The first book Kipling published, Departmental Ditties (1886), emphasizes the universality of human experience and the cross-cultural ubiquity of the ignoble and tragicomic aspects of human character.
The poems collected here are mostly light verse—“barrack-room ballads,” Kipling called them—inspired by Kipling’s early adventures as a newspaperman in British colonial India. The first book Kipling published, Departmental Ditties (1886), emphasizes the universality of human experience and the cross-cultural ubiquity of the ignoble and tragicomic aspects of human character.
