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White Man's Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry of the Empire

White Man's Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry of the Empire
From University of Exeter Press

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It is recognized, this text puts forward, that Western imperialism, of which the British Empire was a major part, played a crucial role in forming the modern world. The best-known literary works on the subject are the novels such as Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", Rider Haggard's "She" and "King Solomon's Mines", Kipling's "Kim", Forster's "A Passage to India" and Orwell's "Burmese Days". This anthology offers the contribution of poetry in the formation of attitudes to the Empire from 1598 to the late 20th century. The poems themselves reveal how ideas about Empire came to be developed from Elizabethan adventurism, through the 17th and 18th centuries' cult of commerce (in which the slave trade played a part) to High Victorian Imperialism, and beyond into our own period of the end of the Empire. This anthology offers a range of poetry published in Britain from 1598 onwards which has dealt with the British Empire. The poems are drawn from a cultural range, over a period of more than 350 years and include conventional poetry, popular poetry, hymns and ballads.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1576385 in Books
  • Published on: 1996-01-01
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .92" h x 5.18" w x 8.33" l, 1.16 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 350 pages

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“The title is from Kipling, of course, as is the epigraph, but it is Kipling footnoted by Wilfred Scawen Blunt, ''The White man''s Burden is the burden of his cash''. In these days, when publishers seem eager to publish anthologies on every conceivable subject, and when the nature of the British Empire is a source of fascination and debate at academic and colour supplement and more popular levels as well, it is surprising that we have had to wait so long for this ''cross-section of British poetry in which the Empire was the burden of the song''. It was worth the wait. The expected and familiar are all here, the set-pieces and the party-pieces and those that (sometimes undeservedly) have become the stock of jokes and gibes. But there is much unfamiliar material here, and some interesting juxtapositions are created by the choice of arrangement by chronology, rather than by author or theme, which encourages the reading of each poem in the context of the historical moment of its production.This is a valuable source book, It is also a good read - I couldn''t decide whether to keep it in the study or by the bed.” –Terry Barringer Royal Commonwealth Society Collections, Cambridge University Library, African Research and Documentation No. 78 1998
(African Research and Documentation )