Article: The Outsider - A profile of the restless wanderer, Rudyard Kipling.

Scott Stanley is deputy managing editor of Insight magazine.

My grandmother, though she will be a hundred years old this month, is still a thoroughly modern old girl and not the least bothered by the fact that the Victorians and Edwardians she knew so well are gone now. In fact, mine is the last generation to have been educated by them and to have been touched personally in the process by their enthusiasms for such cultural atavisms as Wordsworth, Tennyson, the Brownings, Kipling, and other poets to whom narration, meter, and rhyme were not anathema. Kipling especially--whose poems "If," "Recessional," "Gunga Din," and the "The Ballad of East and West" were known ...

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