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Loading... Kipling: The Complete Verseby Rudyard Kipling
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This volume of 845 pages contains most of the poetical output of Rudyard Kipling. Many of his poems could be described as 'Jingoistic' and rightly so,but nevertheless they are still undoubtedly poems that still move the reader today. Even though the events leading to the composition of many of these pieces are long forgotten,still such poems as 'Boots' and 'The 'Eathen' will be well remembered. I love the poems ' The Glory of the Garden ' and 'Gunga Din'. Some,including this last maybe considered not to be politically correct in this day-and-age,but if read carefully,they will be seen to be full of respect for native troops ect. Many will deride what is probably Kipling's most well-known piece 'IF----',but again if you read it carefully and take in his words,you will not go very far wrong,I believe. "If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man,my son! Is an expanded version of
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When I got home I scanned through the book to find on the inside page that the book belonged to a a Mr Alan Titchmarsh of the BBC London.
No idea if he lost it or threw it out, as a bibliophile and collector of books if he lost it I would give it back to him as I know the pain of losing a book I love.
My favourite Kipling poem is 'If'. ( )