Barrack-Room Ballads
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Soldiers fascinated Kipling long before WW1 - he had made his name with a poetry collection, Barrack-Room Ballads.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2016
Yet, there on Page 249 of Twain’s copy of Kipling’s “Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses,” Twain could not resist changing “heaved” to “hove.”
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2010
This is the Kipling who in one astounding year wrote most of his Barrack-Room Ballads, the novel The Light That Failed and seven short stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The Plain Tales From the Hills" and the best of his "Barrack-Room Ballads" were inspired by his youthful association with the large military garrison at this point.
From Modern India by Curtis, William Eleroy
There were no Jocks in Barrack-Room Ballads; but there was 'Tommy,' the poem; and between those immortal lines I read my explanation.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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