Kipling: The Cambridge Manuscript (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108072229)

Since 1913 Magdalene College, Cambridge, has elected a succession of outstanding figures in literature and the arts to honorary fellowships of the college. On the occasion of his election in 1932, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) presented the college with a manuscript poem entitled 'To the Companion' which celebrated Magdalene's best-known graduate, Samuel Pepys. After his death, his widow, Caroline Kipling, bequeathed the present collection of manuscript poems - many of them redrafted and corrected, and thus giving insights into Kipling's creative process - to the college. The bound volume comprises some twenty-eight poems in all (including multiple versions of key stanzas of 'The White Man's Burden'), together with a fragment of an unpublished poem entitled 'The Song of the Engine'. Its publication in the Cambridge Library Collection makes the poems available to the scholar, the Kipling enthusiast, and the general reader.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
ISBN-10: 1108072224
ISBN-13: 9781108072229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2015
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.43d