Lost Rudyard Kipling poems published (BBC)

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More than 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling have been discovered by a US scholar.

Thomas Pinney found the manuscripts in a number of places including a Manhattan House that was being renovated and among the papers of a former head of the Cunard Line.

Pinney described it as a "tremendously exciting time for scholars and fans".

The poems will be published alongside 1,300 others in the first ever complete edition of Kipling's verse on 7 March.
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The newly discovered poems include several from World War I, including one titled Never Again In Any Port, as well as notes from a journal the writer kept on a tour of the war graves of Belgium and France in 1924.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21585390

For those who think Kipling was exclusively an imperial apologist:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arithmetic_on_the_Frontier

And, of course,

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1. I hope the scholars and fans

can keep their heads when all ...

[annabanana]

3. Now you are angry, but nevermind. . .

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4. I was just having fun with 'If'

my favorite Kipling poem.

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5. And I was being very very rude. . .

(I only do that to people I really like)

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6. Bwaaaaaaaaaaah hahahaha

[annabanana]

2. I am a fan.

The quality of the writing makes me regard his prejudices in an historical perspective.
He was who he was;
He lived where and when he lived.

His descriptive prose is spectacular.

Read "Letting in the Jungle" and the poem "Mowgli's Song Against People"