Barrack-Room Ballads (1892)

by Rudyard Kipling

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Kipling's verse, written in a popular style, still has the power both to charm and to amuse. This is a demotic language, but it is also able to cut across the lines of class and culture. (

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Fledgist | Jun 12, 2012 |

A collection of ballads written by Rudyard Kipling.

austinwood | Sep 19, 2009 |

I love Kipling's poetry and find that some of his apparently jingoistic stuff is quite thoughtful underneath, putting forth the view of the ordinary soldier. Some of his war poems have quite an anti-war sentiment. (

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1892

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First collected in 1892, Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads relive the experiences of soldiers sent around the world to defend the Empire-all for little pay and less appreciation. An immediate success, they were unlike anything the public had seen before.

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