Barrack-room ballads and Departmental ditties vs Departmental ditties and other verses: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Soldiers, Poetry
Barrack-room ballads and Departmental ditties
For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their military context…
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Departmental ditties and other verses
Departmental Ditties and other verses, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/ditties/ .
The verdict
- Very close on paper — pick by the themes that pull you more.
Reception
| Barrack-room ballads and Departmental ditties | Departmental ditties and other verses | |
|---|---|---|
| Editions | 45 | 51 |
| Pages | 174 | 94 |