This author wrote "may the jealous Gods prevent our fierce and uncontrolled descent" in a spoof of Ben Jonson called "To a Lady, Persuading her to a Car." He claimed that "all our pomp of yesterday / is one with Nineveh and Tyre" in a poem whose first four stanzas end with the line "Lest we forget -- Lest we forget." He wrote of how "dawn comes up like thunder outer China / 'crost the Bay" in a poem whose speaker imagines a girl "by the old (*) Moulmein pagoda." This author of "Recessional" wrote about the Colonel's son chasing after the horse-thief Kamal but eventually growing to respect him in a poem that begins "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." In another po
This author wrote "may the jealous Gods prevent our fierce and uncontrolled descent" in a spoof of Ben Jonson called "To a Lady, Persuading her to a Car." He claimed that "all our pomp of yesterday / is one with Nineveh and Tyre" in a poem whose first four stanzas end with the line "Lest we forget -- Lest we forget." He wrote of how "dawn comes up like thunder outer China / 'crost the Bay" in a poem whose speaker imagines a girl "by the old (*) Moulmein pagoda." This author of "Recessional" wrote about the Colonel's son chasing after the horse-thief Kamal but eventually growing to respect him in a poem that begins "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." In another poem, the narrator states that an abused water-carrier who took a bullet for him is "a better man than I am." For 10 points, name this British author of "Mandalay", "Gunga Din" and "If".
This author wrote "may the jealous Gods prevent our fierce and uncontrolled descent" in a spoof of Ben Jonson called "To a Lady, Persuading her to a Car."
Rudyard Kipling [or Joseph Rudyard Kipling]