The Complete Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling (570+ Poems in One Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Including Songs from Novels and StoriesBy Rudyard Kipling
Length23h 1m
About this audiobook
The Complete Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling gathers the astonishing range of a poet whose verse helped define the rhythms, anxieties, and certainties of the British imperial age. Across ballads, hymns, dramatic monologues, children's rhymes, martial lyrics, and reflective elegies, Kipling fuses plainspoken vigor with intricate metrical control. Poems such as "If—," "Recessional," and the Barrack-Room Ballads reveal a writer equally attentive to public duty, private endurance, and the voices of soldiers, workers, and wanderers within late Victorian and Edwardian literary culture. Born in Bombay in 1865 and educated in England, Kipling spent his formative years between cultures, an experience that profoundly shaped his imagination. His work as a journalist in India sharpened his ear for dialect, narrative compression, and social observation, while his later fame as novelist, storyteller, and Nobel laureate confirmed his central place in English letters. His poetry reflects both the power and the contradictions of his historical moment. This edition is recommended to readers seeking not merely famous quotations, but the full architecture of Kipling's poetic achievement. It offers students, scholars, and general readers a substantial encounter with a writer whose technical brilliance, moral seriousness, and historical complexity continue to invite admiration, debate, and renewed interpretation.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (2.3K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph, LibraryThing
GenrePoetry
Length23 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling (570+ Poems in One Edition) (Annotated)
26The Lovers' Litany
2Introduction
27A Ballad of Burial
3Author Biography
28Divided Destinies
4Historical Context
29The Masque of Plenty
5Synopsis (Selection)
30The Mare's Nest
Show all chaptersShow less
6Departmental Ditties
31Possibilities
7General Summary
32Christmas in India
8Army Headquarters
33Pagett, M.P
9Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink
34The Song of the Women
10A Legend
35A Ballad of Jakko Hill
11The Story of Uriah
36The Plea of the Simla Dancers
12The Post That Fitted
37The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House
13Delilah
38As the Bell Clinks
14What Happened
39An Old Song
15Pink Dominoes
40Certain Maxims of Hafiz
16The Man Who Could Write
41The Grave of the Hundred Head
17Municipal
42The Moon of Other Days
18A Code of Morals
43The Undertaker's Horse
19The Last Department
44The Fall of Jock Gillespie
20Other Verses
45Arithmetic on the Frontier
21The Vampire
46The Betrothed
22To the Unknown Goddess
47A Tale of Two Cities
23The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin
48Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
24La Nuit Blanche
49The Ballad of East and West
25My Rival
50The Last Suttee
THE IRISH GUARDS: The First & the Second Battalion in the Great War (Complete Edition)Rudyard Kipling25h 43m4.3 (294)$1.99 · $0.00
The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling3h 51m$14 · $0.00
El Cuento Más Hermoso del MundoRudyard Kipling1h 19m$6 · $0.00
Just so StoriesRudyard Kipling3h 29m$10 · $0.00
KimRudyard Kipling10h 34m$6 · $0.00
Kim (Adventure Classic) - IllustratedRudyard Kipling11h 54m$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Tales in One EditionRudyard Kipling179h 14m$1.99 · $0.00
Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks + Kim + The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling43h 38m4.5 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Der Mann, der König sein wollte - Zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch-Englisch) (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling5h 1m4.4 (18)$1 · $0.00
Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling180h 26m$2 · $0.00
The Jungle Book (With the Original Illustrations by John L. Kipling) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling6h 39m$2 · $0.00
Plain Tales from the Hills: 40+ Short Stories Collection (The Tales of Life in British India) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling10h 45m3.9 (12.9K)$2 · $0.00
Gesammelte Erzählungen (116 Titel in einem Buch): Das Dschungelbuch + Dunkeles Indien - Phantastische Erzählungen + Aus Indiens Glut + Soldatengeschichten + und mehr (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling48h 12m4.4 (102)$1 · $0.00
Dunkles Indien. Phantastische Erzählungen (Kommentiert)Rudyard Kipling13h 3m$1 · $0.00
THE JUNGLE BOOK – Complete Edition: Book 1&2 (With the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling13h 29m4.1 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling13h 27m4.3 (4.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling319h 29m4.3 (391)$2 · $0.00
The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First & The Second Battalion (Volume 1&2 - Complete Edition) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling25h 23m4.6 (12)$2 · $0.00
Rudyard Kipling: 440+ Short Stories in One Edition (Illustrated) (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling179h 19m$2 · $0.00
TerraformPropaganda5h 39m4.7 (594)$24 · $0.00
Maybe You Never Cry AgainBernie Mac4h 25m4.6 (3K)$20 · $0.00
Inquire WithinIn-Q2h 18m4.6 (993)$16 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry (The Classic Illustrated Edition)Samuel Taylor Coleridge26h 23m4.6 (1.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Weary Blues (Annotated)Langston Hughes2h 13m4.5 (4.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)Edgar Allan Poe18h 27m4.5 (4.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry (Annotated)Oscar Wilde6h 44m4.5 (15.5K)$2 · $0.00
Saundarya LahariUnknown Author3h 16m4.6 (256)$18 · $0.00
The Mesnevi (Annotated)Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi18h 41m4.5 (4.2K)$2 · $0.00
Songs of a SourdoughRobert W. Service2h 13m4.5 (13.6K)$1 · $0.00
Little Flower of Jesus (Annotated)Thérèse of Lisieux5h 4m4.5 (1.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Poems of LeopardiGiacomo Leopardi3h 9m4.5 (3.6K)$2 · $0.00
Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good CryNikki Giovanni2h 44m4.6 (405)$18 · $0.00
The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman (Annotated)Walt Whitman19h 58m4.5 (4.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
A Year with RumiColeman Barks5h 56m4.5 (2.6K)$24 · $0.00
Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling22h 50m4.5 (2.6K)$3.99 · $0.00
The Complete PoemsPaul Laurence Dunbar12h 40m4.5 (1.5K)$21 · $0.00
The Odes of John Keats - Complete CollectionJohn Keats22h 16m4.5 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare2h 39m4.4 (128.3K)$3 · $0.00
PoemsEdna St. Vincent Millay2h 39m4.5 (1.3K)$2 · $0.00
You may also like
The Anglo-Saxon ChronicleJames Ingram and John Allen Giles9h 56m4.1 (1.8K)Free
CathayEzra Pound, Bai Li36m4.1 (874)$1.99 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust16h 8m4.5 (10.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
PoemsAlan Seeger3h 18m4.2 (525)$2 · $0.00
Complete Poetry of Rudyard Kipling (Annotated)Rudyard Kipling22h 50m4.5 (2.6K)$3.99 · $0.00
PersonaeEzra Pound2h 10m4.2 (1.8K)$2 · $0.00
Where the Stress FallsSusan Sontag12h 39m4.0 (1.3K)$20
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900Various Authors26h 2m4.4 (482)$2 · $0.00
America's GameJerry Rice, Randy O. Williams18h 10m4.2 (590)$40 · $0.00
The Germany and the Agricola of TacitusCornelius Tacitus6h 38m4.1 (18.2K)$1 · $0.00
Traffics and DiscoveriesRudyard Kipling10h 21m3.9 (251)$2.30
My Army, O, My Army! and Other SongsHenry Lawson2h 9m$2 · $0.00
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — CompleteOliver Wendell Holmes19h 24m2.9 (10)$1 · $0.00
A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 (Annotated)Various5h 49m$2 · $0.00
John MasefieldArthur Guiterman, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Laurence Stallings, Laurence Stallings Arthur Guiterman, John Farrar Stuart Sherman1h 5m$2 · $0.00
The Poetry of Ezra PoundEzra Pound2h 28m4.0 (45)$1.99 · $0.00
Verses of a V.A.D (Annotated)Vera Brittain1h 15m4.1 (37)$2 · $0.00
On AnythingHilaire Belloc5h 51m3.8 (55)$2 · $0.00
Verses 1889-1896Rudyard Kipling5h 48m3.5 (21)$2 · $0.00
"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, Hilmar R. Baukhage38m3.7 (39)$1 · $0.00