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"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, characterized by biographer Sir David Gilmour as one of several "ferocious post-war eruptions" of Kipling's souring sentiment concerning the state of Anglo-European society. [1] It was first published in the Sunday Pictorial of London on 26 October 1919.
Peter Bellamy sang it on his first album of songs set to Kipling's poems: Oak, Ash, & Thorn. He stated that the text of the song isn't derived from the tale of Cold Iron but they share a common theme of the iron's influence over men and the People of the Hills.
Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling put it, always return.
Posthumous collections of Kipling's poems include: Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition. A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T. S. Eliot (Faber and Faber, 1941). Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879–1889 : unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986. The Surprising Mr Kipling, edited by ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Gods of the Copybook Headings; ... Tommy (Kipling poem) U. Ubique (poem) W. The White Man's Burden;
Having said that, it is more galling having not one but three references or links to him on the same page as a kipling poem; kipling can be somewhat controversial, but there is no doubt as to whether or not he was a complete idiot, and so on that basis if anyone wishes to delete the entire section, please feel free to do so.
In 2013, The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling was published and included 50 previously unpublished poems alongside more than 1300 previously, though often rarely, published poems in a three-volume edition. [1] Many other versions of Kipling's verse have been made. These include
Additionally, several poems were published: Gertrude's Prayer; Dinah in Heaven; Four-Feet; The Totem; The Disciple; The Playmate; Naaman's Song; The Mother's Son; The Coiner; At his Execution; The Threshold; Neighbours; The Expert; The Curé; Song of Seventy Horses; Hymn to Physical Pain; The Penalty; Azrael's Count