Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Verse (Rev. ed)

When Kipling died in 1936 he was considered second to none as a poet.

Years before, when Tennyson was Laureate, he had described young Kipling as the "only one with divine fire"; but in fact Kipling died in relative anonymity, his death overshadowed by George V's and his reputation dented by a Britain that saw him as outdated and imperialist.

On the 23rd January King George was brought to lie in state in Westminster Hall, the same day as Kipling's ashes were quietly consigned to Poet's Corner.

Kipling brings us such characters as Gunga Din, Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady in these peoms.