![]() ![]() While two volumes of Kipling's poems are clearly labelled as "Barrack-Room Ballads", identifying which poems should be grouped in this way can be complex. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War, titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations (1903), can be considered part of the Ballads, as can a number of other uncollected pieces. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. ![]() The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890, and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems " Gunga Din", " Tommy", " Mandalay", and " Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. First (1892) edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (publ. ![]()
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