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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 made his home at Bateman's, near the prosperous village of [[Burwash]] in [[Sussex]], [[England]].

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

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

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>  

Kipling wrote a number of stories about engineers and machines, topics unusual in literature at the time. His poem, "The Hymn of Breaking Strain" analogizes mechanical and human failure. A curious sidenote is an 1897 story by Kipling which anthropomorphizes railroad engines. It tells the story of how one particular young locomotive performs in a heroic way, wins the respect of his peers, and is inducted into a sort of fraternal organization, the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Locomotives. The name of the engine and the title of the story is ''.007.'' Fans of Ian Fleming have often speculated that this was the inspiration for fictional spy James Bond's code number, but it has never been proven.

Kipling wrote a number of stories about engineers and machines, topics unusual in literature at the time. His poem, "The Hymn of Breaking Strain" analogizes mechanical and human failure. A curious sidenote is an 1897 story by Kipling which anthropomorphizes railroad engines. It tells the story of how one particular young locomotive performs in a heroic way, wins the respect of his peers, and is inducted into a sort of fraternal organization, the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Locomotives. The name of the engine and the title of the story is ''.007.'' Fans of Ian Fleming have often speculated that this was the inspiration for fictional spy James Bond's code number, but it has never been proven.