Author name: Laurence Binyon

Laurence Binyon (1869—1943) was an English poet, dramatist, art scholar, and museum curator known for his significant contributions to poetry and art history. He is best remembered for his World War I poem "For the Fallen" (1914), written in response to the casualties suffered by the British Expeditionary Force. In addition to poetry, Binyon was a dramatist and translated Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy into English, preserving the original terza rima rhyme scheme—a translation highly admired by poets like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.