TY - BOOK ID - 85467480 TI - The Cambridge Manuscript : the 28 autograph poems presented to Magdalene College, Cambridge PY - 2015 SN - 1107444594 1108072224 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English poetry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467480 AB - Since 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 (1865-1936) 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poems in all (including multiple versions of key stanzas of 'The White Man's Burden'), together with a fragment of an unpublished poem entitled 'The Song of the Engine'. Its publication in the Cambridge Library Collection makes the poems available to the scholar, the Kipling enthusiast, and the general reader. ER -