Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, by Rudyard Kipling
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Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, by Rudyard Kipling - Published on: 2015-11-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .44" w x 6.14" l, .90 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 164 pages
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, by Rudyard Kipling About the Author Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling s stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. "Jane Austen Wept," wrote young Rudyard Kipling By T. Patrick Killough In 1886, when he was 21, an Anglo--Indian journalist based in Lahore named Joseph Rudyard Kipling published a book of 50 short poems: DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES. Of DITTIES there were 14, of OTHERS 36. Before me is the Methuen & Co.'s 36th edition of 1921. It is seven inches high and five inches wide. It distributes the 50 poems across 176 pages.Generally speaking, DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES are about British men and women expatriated from "Home" to India to spend their working or early married years moving in circles of European businessmen, tea planters, judges, civilian rulers of vast British Indian districts, advisors at the courts of dependent rajahs and such like. Other soon to follow books by Kipling, such as MULVANEY STORIES, BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS and PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS would, by contrast, do more to showcase fighting men, usually "rankers," that is privates, corporals and sergeants. But DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES tells of civilians: pale Irish women and sunburned Welshmen, Irishmen and Scots.Their setting, of course, is the land and the people that they rule or from which they extract wealth. The more thoughtful civil servants do notice the Hindu and Muslim farmers who toil the soil that provides Queen VIctoria her tax revenues and see the Bengali babus in their green eyeshades as they tally their mercantile profits. Native Indians are born, toil, grow ill and old, die and are cremated or buried -- even on "Christmas in India." But they pay little heed to their Queen Empress or her white minions.In 1887 Kipling was promoted by its owners from being assistant editor of THE CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE, a provincial newspaper written in Lahore, Punjab, to the same position in the nationally much more prominent PIONEER in Allahabad, United Provinces.More than two years earlier, Kipling had published in the PIONEER of August 22, 1885 a humorous ditty called "The Legend of the Lilly." He was only 19 years old. "The Legend of the Lilly" reappeared in 1886 as "The Mare's Nest," nestled between book covers among Kipling's DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES.In "Mare's Nest," a good Anglo-Indian expatriate woman does not know that half her wastrel husband's income goes for the upkeep of a racing mare named Lilly, secretly maintained by him at a discreet distance and for racing Lilly for money in various Indian sporting events. Intercepting at a cool hill station a cable intended for her husband off racing Lilly in the stifling plains in fictitious Shaitanapur ("Satan's Gate"), the wife infers that husband is keeping a mistress named Lilly. She files for divorce and alerts her mother at Home. But husband sets all right by bringing equine Lilly home to meet his wife, whose name is, improbably, Jane Austen Beecher Stowe De Rouse. Jane Austen falls in love with the thirteen hands high Lilly and soon is infected by her husband Belial Machiavelli's ruinous passion for horse racing. From better woman to bettor! Some exerpts from "The Mare's Nest":Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de RouseWas good beyond all earthly need;But, on the other hand, her spouseWas very, very bad indeed.He smoked cigars, called churches slow,And raced - but this she did not know.* * * * *She was so good, she made him worse;(Some women are like this, I think;)He taught her parrot how to curse,Her Assam monkey how to drink.He vexed her righteous soul untilShe went up, and he went down hill.* * * * *But 'twas a telegram instead,Marked "urgent," and her duty plainTo open it. Jane Austen read:"Your Lilly's got a cough again.Can't understand why she is keptAt your expense." Jane Austen wept.* * * * *There was a scene - a weep or two -With many kisses. Austen JaneRode Lilly all the season through,And never opened wires again.She races now with Belial. ThisIs very sad, but so it is.""The Mare's Nest" is perhaps a tad better than most of the other 49 poems in DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND OTHER VERSES. But read them all and chuckle to realize why the poet concludes in "The Betrothed" that "And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke." Note which of the competitors for attention is capitalized. Enjoy DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES!-OOO-
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