1899 FIRST EDITION THUS "THE POEMS OF RUDYARD KIPLING" BY RUDYARD KIPLING
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1899 first edition thus of "The Poems of Rudyard Kipling" by Kipling. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. New York, NY. Kipling(d36)was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include “The Jungle Book”, “Kim”, and “The Man Who Would be King”. (1888). His poems include “Mandalay”, “Gunga Din”, “The White Man’s Burden” and “If—“. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell saw Kipling as "a jingo imperialist", who was "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting". Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "[Kipling] is still an author
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