Kipling: The Cambridge Manuscript by Rudyard Kipling - 9781108072229

Kipling: The Cambridge ManuscriptThe 31 Autograph Poems Presented to Magdalene College, Cambridge\nAuthor(s): Rudyard Kipling\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108072229, 978-1108072229\nSynopsis\nSince 1913 Magdalene College, Cambridge, has elected a succession of outstanding figures in literature and the arts to honorary fellowships of the college. On the occasion of his election in 1932, Rudyard Kipling [tel] presented the college with a manuscript poem entitled 'To the Companion' which celebrated Magdalene's best-known graduate, Samuel Pepys. After his death, his widow, Caroline Kipling, bequeathed the present collection of manuscript poems - many of them redrafted and corrected, and thus giving insights into Kipling's creative process - to the college. The bound volume comprises some twenty-eight poems in all (including multiple versions of key stanzas of 'The White Man's Burden'), togethe.