Rudyard Kipling  

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"Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there. Mr. Eliot never satisfactorily explains this fact, because in answering the shallow and familiar charge that Kipling is a ‘Fascist’, he falls into the opposite error of defending him where he is not defensible."--"Rudyard Kipling" (1941) by George Orwell

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Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, best known for his work The Jungle Book (1894).



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