Dear all
I was sent a copy of this book for review (see June
2006 in due course), and my impression is much less
favourable. Although the actual verse looks OK, the
proof-reading of the Table of Contents and the Index
has been sloppy, nor is it the "Complete Verse", just
a reprint of the Definitive Edition.
If anyone needs this, it would probably be more cost
effective to go for the Wordsworth edition.
However, Alastair is right in that it does show a
greater interest in Kipling.
David Page
Editor, Kipling Journal
--- Alastair Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Members may be interested to know that there is a
> long review in this weeks The Spectator magazine, by
> Bevis Hillier, of "Rudyard Kipling: The Complete
> Verse" (Foreword by M M Kaye).
> The review is favourable, though not particularly
> deep, and half of it is, frankly, blether which has
> nothing really to do the verse.
> It is not clear why the review has been published -
> this particular edition, published by Kyle Cathie,
> first came out in 1990 - but it is perhaps
> symptomatic of the far greater interest being taken
> in Kipling today.
> Alastair Wilson
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