Rudyard Kipling who lived at Rottingdean described the South Downs as Our blunt, bow-headed whale-backed Downs. Writing in 1920 in his poem The South Country, poet Hilaire Belloc describes the South Downs as the great hills of the South Country. In On The South Coast, poet Algernon Charles Swinburne describes the South Downs as the green smooth-swelling unending downs.