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'''Rudyard Kipling''' (1865-1936) was an English poet (born in India, which was a British colony at the time) and writer of children's books who spent some time living in Vermont.  He authored Captains Courageous and The Jungle Books.  He won an early Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907.

'''Rudyard Kipling''' (1865-1936) was an English poet (born in [[India]], which was a British colony at the time) and writer of children's books who spent some time living in Vermont.  He authored ''Captains Courageous'' and ''The Jungle Books''.  He won an early Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907.

He wrote in the ''Ballad of East and West'':

He wrote in the ''Ballad of East and West'':

Kipling's other writings included ''Kim'', ''Wee Willie Winkie'', ''Gunga Din'', and ''Baa Baa Black Sheep''.  

Kipling's other writings included ''Kim'', ''Wee Willie Winkie'', ''Gunga Din'', and ''Baa Baa Black Sheep''.  

Kipling and Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the [[Boy Scouts]], knew each other, and Baden-Powell's Scouting program drew on some of Kipling's ideas. His 1908 ''Scouting for Boys'' included a condensed version of ''Kim,'' and the memory training exercise "Kim's Game" was and remains part of Scouting.

Kipling and [[Robert Baden-Powell]], founder of the [[Boy Scouts]], knew each other, and Baden-Powell's Scouting program drew on some of Kipling's ideas. His 1908 ''Scouting for Boys'' included a condensed version of ''Kim,'' and the memory training exercise "Kim's Game" was and remains part of Scouting.

Kipling was identified with British imperialism, and for a time fell victim to a kind of political correctness. In a famous essay, [[George Orwell]] notes that "During five literary geenerations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kiping is in some sense still there." He said that Kipling "is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language." Giving as an example Kipling's line "He travels the fastest who travels alone," Orwell notes "It may not be true, but at any rate you it is a thought that everyone thinks. Sooner or later you will have occasion to feel that he travels the fastest who travels alone, and there the thought is, ready made and, as it were, waiting for you. So the chances are that, having once heard this line, you will remember it."<ref>Orwell, George (1942), "Rudyard Kipling." ''The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell,'' volume 2, pp. 184-197</ref>  

Kipling was identified with British imperialism, and for a time fell victim to a kind of political correctness. In a famous essay, [[George Orwell]] notes that "During five literary geenerations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kiping is in some sense still there." He said that Kipling "is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language." Giving as an example Kipling's line "He travels the fastest who travels alone," Orwell notes "It may not be true, but at any rate you it is a thought that everyone thinks. Sooner or later you will have occasion to feel that he travels the fastest who travels alone, and there the thought is, ready made and, as it were, waiting for you. So the chances are that, having once heard this line, you will remember it."<ref>Orwell, George (1942), "Rudyard Kipling." ''The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell,'' volume 2, pp. 184-197</ref>