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
Others by slow degrees recovered and began to quote bits of, Barrack-Room Ballads and cynical lines from Adam Lindsay Gordon to the nurse in charge.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
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 William Lyon Phelps
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