A selection of poetry by Kipling, English short-story writer, novelist and poet, who celebrated the heroism of British colonial soldiers in India and Burma. He was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. This volume contains all the verses by Kipling originally printed in Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads. It also brings together for the first time the various titles of Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldiers Three, In Black and White, American Notes, Mine Own People, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, The story of the Gadsbys, The City of Dreadful Night, Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkie, and The Light That Failed.