Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition

The Definitive Edition of the verse of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was published in 1940 in London by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd and in Edinburgh by R. R. Clark. It is a one-volume collection and was printed on India paper.

The bibliographical information given on the verso of the title page (the 'Edition notice') of the 1958 reprint of the 1940 edition gives the following information (years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

The first edition of Kipling's Collected Verse (1885–1912) was published in 1912, with a reprint in the same year.
The second collected edition, the Inclusive Edition (1885–1918) was first published in 3 volumes in December 1919. A second impression came out in April 1920.
- This edition (inclusive of his verse from 1885 to 1918) was issued as a single volume in October 1921, and went through 18 further impressions by August 1926.
The third collected edition (Inclusive Edition, 1885 - 1926) appeared as a single volume in September 1927. 11 more impressions came out by October 1931.
The fourth Inclusive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1885–1932), in one volume, appeared in October 1933, and was followed by six impressions up to November 1939.
The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse appeared posthumously in 1940. It was reprinted — the edition notice of the 1958 reprint states — in 1941, 1949 and 1958.

Many other versions of Kipling's verse have been made. These include

- Kipling, Rudyard (1913) Songs from Books, London, Macmillan.
- Kipling, Rudyard (1925) A choice of songs from the verse of Rudyard Kipling, London, Methuem.
- Kipling, Rudyard (1941) A Choice of Kipling's Verse made by T.S.Eliot, with an essay on RUDYARD KIPLING, London, Faber and Faber.
- Kipling, Rudyard (1986) Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879-1889: unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
- Kipling, Rudyard (1992) Rudyard Kipling: selected poetry, London, Penguin.
- Kipling, Rudyard (1994) The collected poems of Rudyard Kipling, introduction and notes by R. T. Jones, Ware, Wordsworth Editions.

Rudyard Kipling

Novels	The Light that Failed (1891) Captains Courageous (1896) Kim (1901)

Collections	Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Soldiers Three (1888) The Story of the Gadsbys (1888) In Black and White (1888) The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888) Under the Deodars (1888) Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888) From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel (1889) Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, poetry) The Jungle Book (1894) "Mowgli's Brothers" "Kaa's Hunting" "Tiger! Tiger!" "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" The Second Jungle Book (1895) "Letting in the Jungle" "Red Dog" All the Mowgli Stories (c. 1895) The Day's Work (1898) Stalky & Co. (1899) Just So Stories (1902) Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) Rewards and Fairies (1910) The Fringes of the Fleet (1915, non-fiction) Debits and Credits (1926) Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (1940)

Poems	"The Absent-Minded Beggar" "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"" "The Ballad of East and West" "The Bell Buoy" "The Betrothed" "Big Steamers" "Cold Iron" "Danny Deever" "The Female of the Species" "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" "Gentleman ranker" "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" "Gunga Din" "Hymn Before Action" "If—" "The King's Pilgrimage" "The Last of the Light Brigade" "The Lowestoft Boat" "Mandalay" "My Boy Jack" "Recessional" "A Song in Storm" "Sons of Martha" "Submarines" "The Sweepers" "Ubique" "The White Man's Burden" "The Widow at Windsor"

Short Stories	".007" "The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly" "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" "The Butterfly that Stamped" "Consequences" "The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin" "Cupid's Arrows" "Drums of the Fore and Aft" "False Dawn" "A Germ-Destroyer" "His Chance in Life" "His Wedded Wife" "In the House of Suddhoo" "Kidnapped" "Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris" "Lispeth" "The Man Who Would Be King" "Miss Youghal's Sais" "The Mother Hive" "Ortheris" "The Other Man" "The Rescue of Pluffles" "The Ship that Found Herself" "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" "The Taking of Lungtungpen" "Three and – an Extra" "The Three Musketeers" "Thrown Away" "Toomai of the Elephants" "Watches of the Night" "Yoked with an Unbeliever" "The Broken Link Handicap"

Related	Bibliography Bateman's home Indian Railway Library The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer Iron Ring The Law of the Jungle Aerial Board of Control My Boy Jack (1997 play) My Boy Jack (2007 film)

Family	Elsie Bambridge (daughter) John Kipling (son) John Lockwood Kipling (father) MacDonald sisters (mother's family) Stanley Baldwin (cousin) Edward Burne-Jones (uncle) Edward Poynter (uncle) Alfred Baldwin (uncle)

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