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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
One of my goals is to travel and see India and do meditation with at least 40,000 people. At 61 years of age, I have been able to fulfill most of my important goals: to graduate as an engineer like my father, to study in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, my first job in Maracaibo, to start traveling for business in 1985, to finish my postgraduate degree in 1990, to work in the Venezuelan state oil company, and living in Europe for several years until 2008 when I moved to Costa Rica, definitely another dream come true.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
One of my goals is to travel and see India and do meditation with at least 40,000 people. At 61 years of age, I have been able to fulfill most of my important goals: to graduate as an engineer like my father, to study in Atlanta at Georgia Tech, my first job in Maracaibo, to start traveling for business in 1985, to finish my postgraduate degree in 1990, to work in the Venezuelan state oil company, and living in Europe for several years until 2008 when I moved to Costa Rica, definitely another dream come true.
Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Most of these works, if not all, are available via archive.org and other libraries that uploaded a large number of works in times of pandemic.
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said, "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
Kipling's subsequent reputation changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how the empire was experienced. That, and increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."
More in wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling. San Jose November 5th, 2022, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
Most of these works, if not all, are available via archive.org and other libraries that uploaded a large number of works in times of pandemic.
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said, "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner, part of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.
Kipling's subsequent reputation changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "Kipling is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognized as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how the empire was experienced. That, and increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."
More in wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling. San Jose November 5th, 2022, rafaelvilagut@gmail.com.
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