1895-1985. English poet and author. He was
severely wounded on the Somme in World War I,
and his frank autobiography Goodbye to All
That 1929 is one of the outstanding war
books. Other works include the poems Over the
Brazier 1916; historical novels of Imperial
Rome, I Claudius and Claudius the God both
1934; and books on myth, for example The
White Goddess 1948.