Rudyard Kipling Poetry

It seems there's a new collection of various verses from Rudyard Kipling that are going to be included in a new Cambridge edition being released this week.  Now, one must wonder, given the prolific nature of Kipling's work--was there a reason these pieces were not published previously?

One group is described as being humorous verses that seem to have been composed on the fly to entertain his fellow passengers on a sea voyage. It is easy to imagine that the author never intended those to be among his "greatest works", but amusing they might be.

Sometimes the fact that we can find work that was not published prior may be subverting the author's own intentions concerning how his body of work was to be remembered.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/25/rudyard-kipling-poems-discovered

Kipling family Jungle Book found

In the process of cataloging the holdings at Wimpole Hall, the home of Kipling's daughter Elsie from 1938 to 1976, a copy of the Jungle Book given to Josephine Kipling was found. BBC news story here