A British poet, writer, classicist, and soldier. While known as a war poet of the First World War, he was active in a wide range of fields after the war, including historical novels, mythology studies, translation, and autobiography. His representative works include his First World War memoir "Good-Bye to All That," and his historical novels set in ancient Rome, "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God." In the First World War, he served on the Western Front as a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He forged close friendships with poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and after the war lived for many years in Deià on the island of Mallorca, Spain, to continue his writing. In 1961, he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and became one of the representative writers of 20th-century British literature.

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