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
It is quite possible, too, that the officers' attitude toward Tommy Atkins had been altered by the Barrack-Room Ballads, and this new attitude produced results in character.
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon
Barrack-Room Ballads, ballads by Rudyard Kipling, with a fine martial strain.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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