Question

Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote the memorial ode to dead soldiers of World War I, “For the Fallen” (1914)

Answer 1

Laurence Binyon
"For the Fallen" was published in The Times of 1914. Binyon was a prolific poet, playwright, biographer and writer on English arts and myths, Persian and Japanese art and poetry. During World War II and not long before he died, Binyon also wrote the war poem "The Burning of the Leaves".