Speaking of favourite poems -
The latest edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse has six Kipling
poems in it: The Story of Uriah, The Vampire(!), A Death-bed(!),
Recessional, Danny Deever and The Fabulists. The 1972 edition had only
five: Mandalay, Danny Deever, Cities and Thrones and Powers, The Way
through the Woods, and Recessional. Some of these hadn't been written
when the original anthology was published in 1900. The second edition of
1939 includes only three Kipling items: L'Envoi [The Long Trail], The Way
through the Woods and Recessional.
The 1998 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has 82
Kipling entries, verse and prose - fewer than the third edition, but still
a respectable number. Lisa Lewis
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