The collection of Kipling poetry, performed by Mark Redfield, with music by Jennifer Rouse, are taken mostly from “Barrack-Room Ballads”. The poems mostly dramatize the concerns, yearnings, emotions, and thoughts of British soldiers at war, stationed in India, or at home - now forgotten by their fellow countrymen. Popular favorites in this recording eloquently and powerfully read by Mark Redfield include “Gunga Din”, “The Last of the Light Brigade”, and “If”.
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TRACKS:
01 - Intro/Opening Credits - 0:40
02 - Gunga Din - 4:20
03 - Evarra And His Gods - 6:16
04 - The Last Of The Light Brigade - 3:47
05 - The Broken Men - 3:02
06 - Tommy - 4:11
07 - Danny Deever - 2:53
08 - Tomlinson - 11:39
09 - The Widow At Windsor - 2:37
10 - The Explorer - 6:09
11 - The Ballad Of East and West - 9:20
12 - The Vampire - 2:27
13 - A Charm - 1:47
14 - When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted - 1:41
15 - If - 2:25
16 - End Credits - 0:28
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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born of English parents in Bombay, India. At seventeen, he began work as a journalist and over the next seven years established an international reputation with his stories and verses of Indian and army life, including such classics as The Jungle Book and Kim. In 1907 he became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1848) transformed the American literary landscape with his innovations in the short story genre and his haunting lyrical poetry, and he is credited with inventing American gothic horror and detective fiction. He was first published in 1827 and then began a career as a magazine writer and editor and a sharp literary critic. In 1845 the publication of his most famous poem, “The Raven,” brought him national fame.