The line "A cold coming we had of it" opens a poem by this man in which the speaker asks "were we led this way for/ Birth or Death?" That poem's line "no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation" inspired the title of a Chinua Achebe novel. "Three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree" in a poem by this man that begins with the statement "Because I do not hope to (*) turn again". This poet of "Journey of the MAgi" wrote "this is the dead land/ this is the cactus la
The line "A cold coming we had of it" opens a poem by this man in which the speaker asks "were we led this way for/ Birth or Death?" That poem's line "no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation" inspired the title of a Chinua Achebe novel. "Three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree" in a poem by this man that begins with the statement "Because I do not hope to (*) turn again". This poet of "Journey of the MAgi" wrote "this is the dead land/ this is the cactus land" in a poem that ends by claiming "this is the way the world ends/ not with a bang but with a whimper." For 10 points, name this American-born poet who defended his conversion to Anglicanism in "Ash Wednesday" and wrote "The Hollow Men"