Kipling was the son of John Lockwood Kipling, an artist, and Alice Macdonald Kipling and was named after the Staffordshire village of Rudyard where…more
Oscar Wilde: From the point of view of literature, Mr Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. (The Critic as Artist, 1891)