• of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces. While two volumes of Kipling's poems are clearly labelled as "Barrack-Room Ballads", identifying...
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  • published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better...
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    Deever" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded...
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  • "Tommy" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time...
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  • title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls Scottish foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes"...
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  • English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of Barrack Room Ballads. It describes the respect of the ordinary soldier for the bravery...
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  • Verses, 1886. Barrack Room Ballads, 1889, republished with additions at various times. The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads, in various editions...
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    Shakespeare's King Lear, Dickens's Little Dorrit, and Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads. However, Shakespeare's use of the phrase in King Lear is limited...
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  • In the same year he recorded a collection of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads (see below). Having mastered the art of putting new words to a traditional...
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    'eathen idol's foot: — Rudyard Kipling, (1892) "Mandalay", from Barrack-room Ballads My brother was unlike us in some things, Sahib. He was fond of the...
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