One poem by this man ends, "We shall go mad no doubt, and die that way," if "we let our tongues lose self-possession". That poem notes, "We spell away the overhanging night/We spell away the soldiers and the fright," and begins, "Children are dumb to say how hot the sun is." Another poem states that the title entity needs "no scrutinizing glass/No intense light to be streamed/Upon it" and describes it as "[p]ast reason and past synonym". This poet of "The Cool Web" and "In the Beginning Was A Word" asked in another poem, "Has God's supply of tolerable husbands/Fallen, in fact, so low?". This poet of "A Slice of Wedding Cake" also described the killing of German prisoners of war by the British army in a memoir about his WWI experiences, and 
One poem by this man ends, "We shall go mad no doubt, and die that way," if "we let our tongues lose self-possession". That poem notes, "We spell away the overhanging night/We spell away the soldiers and the fright," and begins, "Children are dumb to say how hot the sun is." Another poem states that the title entity needs "no scrutinizing glass/No intense light to be streamed/Upon it" and describes it as "[p]ast reason and past synonym". This poet of "The Cool Web" and "In the Beginning Was A Word" asked in another poem, "Has God's supply of tolerable husbands/Fallen, in fact, so low?". This poet of "A Slice of Wedding Cake" also described the killing of German prisoners of war by the British army in a memoir about his WWI experiences, and wrote a fictional biography of the title emperor in another work. For 10 points, name this author of Goodbye To All That and I, Claudius.
One poem by this man ends, "We shall go mad no doubt, and die that way," if "we let our tongues lose self-possession".
Robert {Graves}