The Dead to the Living

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) was a poet and academic who is known for his commemorative poetry of the First World War. He studied classics at Oxford before working in the British Museum where he became an expert on prints and drawings. In 1933 he was appointed Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. He is best known for his verse 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down on the sun and in the morning We will remember them', which is traditionally read on Remembrance Sunday