Selected Poems - Couverture rigide

Kipling, Rudyard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904919243 ISBN 13 : 9781904919247

Editeur : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2004

Synopsis

Shows Kipling to be thoughtful, compassionate, witty and a dextrous manipulator of dramatic verse. His poems are some of the best known and most widely-quoted in the English language, and have continued to give enjoyment long after the sun finally set on his beloved British Empire.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is perhaps the most controversial major English poetof the last two centuries, not least because of his apparent enthusiasm for the empire. A child of British India, he first became famous for tales of imperial life, notably Kim, the Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads. Kipling wrote verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode, but his most distinctive gift was for the ballads and narrative poems in which he draws vivid characters in universal situations and articulates profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle and deeply affecting anatomist of the human heart, with a feeling for the natural world which rivals his younger contemporary, D. H. Lawrence. Shattered by World War I in which he lost his only son, his work darkens and deepens in later years, but never loses its extraordinary vitality.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 3, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If-" (1910); and his many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills (1888).
He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story";[2] his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best work speaks to a versatile and luminous narrative gift.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904919243
• ISBN 13: 9781904919247
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Harness Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible