The poems collected here are mostly light versebarrack-room ballads, Kipling called theminspired by Kiplings early adventures as a newspaperman in British colonial India. The first book Kipling published, Departmental Ditties (1886), emphasizes the universality of human experience and the cross-cultural ubiquity of the ignoble and tragicomic aspects of human character.
| ISBN: | 9781411435599 |
| Publication date: | 8th February 2011 |
| Author: | Kipling, Rudyard |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | Ebook |