rudyard kipling

Much maligned as Jingoistic. I've read loads of his books since a teenager (this year I re-read Stalky & Co and Puck of Pook's Hill) and I don't think he deserves the "sneers". I didn't realise till I read this article that he won a Nobel Prize. He wrote: All good people agree, And all good...

I'm tempted to nominate Kipling (1865-1936) as the great neglected British author of the late Victorian era and early 20th century, as (it seems to me) Sir Walter Scott may be the neglected master of the early 19th century. These authors once were enormously popular (and Kipling was the first...