The Definitive Edition of the verse of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

 (1865–1936) was published in 1940 in London by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd and in Edinburgh by R. R. Clark. It is a one-volume collection and was printed on India paper

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The bibliographical information given on the verso of the title page (the 'Edition notice

Edition notice

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') of the 1958 reprint of the 1940 edition gives the following information (years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

• The first edition of Kipling's Collected Verse (1885–1912) was published in 1912
  1912 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore takes a sheaf of his translated works to England, where they impress William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys, Thomas Sturge Moore, and others...
  
  , with a reprint in the same year.
• The second collected edition, the Inclusive Edition (1885–1918) was first published in 3 volumes in December 1919
  1919 in poetry
  —From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two paintings by E. E...
  
  . A second impression came out in April 1920.
  • This edition (inclusive of his verse from 1885 to 1918) was issued as a single volume in October 1921
    1921 in poetry
    — Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of Dulce et Decorum Est, published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...
    
    , and went through 18 further impressions by August 1926.
• The third collected edition (Inclusive Edition, 1885 - 1926) appeared as a single volume in September 1927
  1927 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship-Canada:...
  
  . 11 more impressions came out by October 1931.
• The fourth Inclusive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse(1885–1932), in one volume, appeared in October 1933
  1933 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in which he asserted that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion—not to transmit thought but...
  
  , and was followed by six impressions up to November 1939.
• The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse appeared posthumously in 1940
  1940 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet and writer Aldous Huxley is a screenwriter for the movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
  
  . It was reprinted — the edition notice of the 1958 reprint states — in 1941, 1949 and 1958.

Many other versions of Kipling's verse have been made. These include

• • Kipling, Rudyard (1913) Songs from Books, London, Macmillan.
  • Kipling, Rudyard (1925) A choice of songs from the verse of Rudyard Kipling, London, Methuem.
  • Kipling, Rudyard (1941) A Choice of Kipling's Verse made by T.S.Eliot, with an essay on RUDYARD KIPLING, London, Faber and Faber.
  • Kipling, Rudyard (1986) Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879-1889: unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
  • Kipling, Rudyard (1992) Rudyard Kipling: selected poetry London, Penguin.
  • Kipling, Rudyard (1994) The collected poems of Rudyard Kipling, introduction and notes by R. T. Jones, Ware, Wordsworth Editions.