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Departmental Ditties Ballads and Other Verses
by Rudyard Kipling
Antique Turn Of The Century Hardcover Pocket Book
Scarce early printing of more of Kipling’s popular poetry
Departmental Ditties Ballads and Other Verses by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of poems first published in 1886. This compilation reflects Kipling's keen observations of British colonial life in India, often with a satirical and humorous tone. The poems explore themes of bureaucracy, military life, and social issues, providing a vivid portrayal of the era's cultural and political landscape
The poems in this collection are known for their satirical and humorous take on British colonial life in India. Kipling's sharp wit and keen observations highlight the absurdities and intricacies of bureaucratic and military life.
Publication History: The collection was first published in June 1886 by the Civil & Military Gazette Press in Lahore, India. It was later reprinted in Calcutta by Thacker, Spink & Co. in December 1886
Editions and Additions
Editions and Additions
: With each new edition, Kipling often added more poems. The first American edition was published in December 1890 by the United States Book Company, which included additional ballads and verses. Specific Contents of this addition as follows:
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES
- Army Headquarters
- Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink
- A Legend of the Foreign Office
- The Story of Uriah
- The post that Fitted
- Public Waste
- Delilah
- What Happened
- Pink Dominoes
- The Man who could Write
- Municipal
- A Code of Morals
- The Last Department
BALLADS AND OTHER VERSES:
- The Ballad of East and West
- The Last Suttee
- The Ballad of the King's Mercy
- The Ballad of the King's Jest
- The Ballad of Boh Da Thone
- The Lament of teh Border Cattle Chief
- The Rhyme of the Three Captains
- The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"
- The Ballad of the "Bolivar"
- The English Flag
- "Cleared"
- An Imperial Rescript
- Tomlinson
- The Betrothed
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Griffen's Debt
- In Springtime
- Two months
- The Galley-Slave
- The Conundrum of the Workshops
- The Gift of the Sea
- The Explanation
- The Vampire
- Our Lady of the Snows
- Recessional
Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936) English author and poet, best known for The Jungle Book, was born in Bombay in December 1865. He returned to India from England shortly before his seventeenth birthday, to work as a journalist first on the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, then on the Pioneer at Allahabad. The poems and stories he wrote over the next seven years laid the foundation of his literary reputation, and soon after his return to London in 1889 he found himself world-famous. His works enjoyed great acclaim and popularity. Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. But throughout his life he came to seem increasingly controversial because of his political opinions, and it has been difficult to reach literary judgments unclouded by partisan feeling.
Kipling split his boyhood between the markets of Bombay India and an abusive English foster home. His life of travel and tragedy led to two near nervous breakdowns, but made his creative work accessible to both the aristocracy and the common man. He died on January 18, 1936 as one of the most famous and highly paid writers of his time.
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- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Topic
- Fiction
- Subject
- Literature & Fiction
- Publisher
- The Lovell Company
- Special Attributes
- Pocket Book
- Year Printed
- 1893
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
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