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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
While one can't argue with the sheer volume of work presented here there are some serious issues with the poetry.
My version seems to have no formatting - all the poetry runs together with no line breaks. I am familiar with most of the Kipling's poetry anyway so it retains some use and the prose remains readable. However, it is simply miserable reading poetry without the appropriate formatting. Anyone unfamiliar with the poetry would have no chance of working out the structure.
So despite being a fan I have to give just a single star. I'm very happy to amend that if it turns out there is some problem with my download. It will still have some use to scholars as a reference but if you want a readable version this ain't it.
My version seems to have no formatting - all the poetry runs together with no line breaks. I am familiar with most of the Kipling's poetry anyway so it retains some use and the prose remains readable. However, it is simply miserable reading poetry without the appropriate formatting. Anyone unfamiliar with the poetry would have no chance of working out the structure.
So despite being a fan I have to give just a single star. I'm very happy to amend that if it turns out there is some problem with my download. It will still have some use to scholars as a reference but if you want a readable version this ain't it.
76 of 81 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The late 20th century's trite and unjust dismissal of much of Kipling's work on the absurd charge of being a facist, a racist and an admirer of imperialism, have kept many of the marvellous works on this collection out of the public domain. He certainly was neither of the first 2 and it is doubtful if he really was the third given the degree of criticism he rails at those who governed, especially in India.
This subsequently damaged Kipling's reputation, his popularity and his acceptability in the modern PC world. OK "IF" was rather ludicrously voted as "The Nation's Favourite Poem", but that was largely because most people simply don't know of many if any other poems in general.
The introduction to the book goes some way to providing a more balanced view of Kipling and shows these absurd charges to be nothing more than slurs.
Many, I believe, make the mistake of interpreting the venacular language used by characters in the poems as representative of Kipling's own views and turn away from the brilliance of the verse. There is also an arrogant snobbery in some attitudes to the work.
As with anyone with such a prodigious output (and there are not many), not all of the poems are of great stature, but most are highly readable, enjoyable, varied and there are some clearly great ones among them.
SO much for so very little makes this a great buy.
This subsequently damaged Kipling's reputation, his popularity and his acceptability in the modern PC world. OK "IF" was rather ludicrously voted as "The Nation's Favourite Poem", but that was largely because most people simply don't know of many if any other poems in general.
The introduction to the book goes some way to providing a more balanced view of Kipling and shows these absurd charges to be nothing more than slurs.
Many, I believe, make the mistake of interpreting the venacular language used by characters in the poems as representative of Kipling's own views and turn away from the brilliance of the verse. There is also an arrogant snobbery in some attitudes to the work.
As with anyone with such a prodigious output (and there are not many), not all of the poems are of great stature, but most are highly readable, enjoyable, varied and there are some clearly great ones among them.
SO much for so very little makes this a great buy.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I'm not going to be over-critical of this edition. It cost me a song, and no doubt some good people put in a lot of their own time and were well-pleased with the result, but it obviously dates from the early days of Kindle formatting, and it appears on my device as basically just a typescript version of the original works. As some other reviewers have pointed out, it is particularly difficult to read the poetry in such a format (or lack of it).
I recommend that you pay the extra few pennies - and that is literally what it costs: about the price of half a pint of beer - and seek out the Coyote Canyon 'Rudyard Kipling Collection' in the Kindle Store. Rudyard Kipling Collection (500+ Works) The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, Gunga Din, Mandalay, Indian Tales & more That edition is nicely formatted in the now-familiar Kindle style, and is infinitely more pleasurable to read than this prototype version.
I recommend that you pay the extra few pennies - and that is literally what it costs: about the price of half a pint of beer - and seek out the Coyote Canyon 'Rudyard Kipling Collection' in the Kindle Store. Rudyard Kipling Collection (500+ Works) The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, Gunga Din, Mandalay, Indian Tales & more That edition is nicely formatted in the now-familiar Kindle style, and is infinitely more pleasurable to read than this prototype version.
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Poetry is for pussies
Understanding Kipling is probably a key to understanding imperial Britain. The poems are well organised and although the paper is shoddy easy to read. Read more
Published 10 months ago by D. J. Andrews
Much as I love Kipling this is a terrible edition
Well the collected works: great!
Only there is poor type face and lots of weird underscoring of spaces, still can't find (or if found, can't read in correct sequence)... Read more
Only there is poor type face and lots of weird underscoring of spaces, still can't find (or if found, can't read in correct sequence)... Read more
Published 11 months ago by C. Richards
Great if hugely problematic writer who is being badly served by...
Kipling is not cool enough to get the VIP treatment from publishers, so we have to put up with cheap and badly edited editions of his work while loads of his books remain out of... Read more
Published 12 months ago by lexo1941
Poor formatting
I bought this collection but found that the formatting of the poems is poor, so I later tried another Kipling collection from Coyote Canyon:... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Rob Davies
Prose as well as Poetry
Don't be misled by reviews refering only to Kipling's poetry. This collection includes more than 25 prose works including the Jungle Book, Kim, The Man who would be King, Stalky &... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Hannah
Memories
I purchased this collection following the Humanist funeral of a friend when 'The Glory of the Garden' was read and am looking forward to discovering more of Rudyard Kiplings... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. M. Little
Back to school days - but relevant to today.
If like me, you went to school in the fifties and sixties, then that may well be the last time you experienced Rudyard Kipling. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2010 by David Canning
By jingo, there's some enjoyable poems here
The literary establishment, with its solid block of left-liberal academics, has long been (and still is) full of strange ideas. One of the strangest is the dismissal of Kipling. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2009 by Lewis Duckworth
Great Collection
This collection will keep me busy for a number of years. As always with these poem collections, you don't realise all the poems the poet has written. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2009 by H. Monaghan
A truly great Briton
It is unfortunate that Kipling is erroneously derided as a Fascist, racist and imperialist. His verse is often viewed in the context of our own time, rather than the period in... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2007 by The man who would be king
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