Barrack Room Ballads

Description:

For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their military context is necessary if he is to appreciate them in their full glory. John Whitehead, critic and biographer who himself served with the Indian Army in Burma, has provided this in full measure in his entertaining and scholarly Introduction and comprehensive textual Notes. This Centenary Edition of the ballads is unlikely ever to be superseded.

subjects: Soldiers,  Poetry,  English poetry, history and criticism,  Kipling, rudyard, 1865-1936,  English poetry (collections), 19th century,  Ballads, english, history and criticism,  Barrack-room ballads and other verses (Kipling, Rudyard),  War,  british soldiers,  Soldiers, family relationships,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Literature, collections,  Collected works (single author, multi-form)

People: Rudyard Kipling,  Tommy, pseud. of British Soldier Atkins

Places: India,  Africa,  Great Britain