Of the writer dubbed a genius by Henry James and a unique master of verse by T. In a way, Orwell’s outrage gets right to the heart of the questions begged by the man who remains the youngest (and first) English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He had spent the early decades of the century wondering how so many Britons could hold Rudyard Kipling’s “If-” (1896) so dearly without realizing that “(f)ew people who have criticized England from the inside have said bitterer things about her” than its author. In 1942, as ever, George Orwell was bemused.
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