An English Writer
George Orwell termed him as “a prophet of British imperialism.”
One could say that he was a successful writer of his times because when he received the Noble Prize, he was its youngest recipient and the first English-Language writer, who received it.
There was also a belief that he had never been to Mandalay. But he could compose it very well, one could say, because of his imagination. This “Mandalay” poem was still loved by poem-lovers whenever they read it. They thought that it gave something back to them.
As a poem, it was well composed. It could attract people's interest well. Whenever authors wrote about Myanmar, they usually quoted the lines from his poem “Mandalay”. It would be going
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