Kipling

‘If–‘ is, by British readers’ choice, the most popular poem in the language. This selection of Rudyard Kipling’s verse contains not only this classic, but many of his greatest poems, in testimony to a writer who possessed a precocious gift for rhyme and a brilliant ear for language, coupled with a pin-sharp use of spare, vivid imagery. This collection also includes: ‘Tommy’, ‘The Way Through the Woods’, ‘Recessional’, ‘Boots’, ‘The Female of the Species’, ‘Mandalay’, ‘Gunga Din’, The Young British Soldier’ and many more of Kipling’s greatest poems.