Deep in the mud of the Somme in 1916, a young officer of the Lancashire Fusiliers began scribbling a mythology that would eventually redefine the boundaries of modern literature. While his contemporaries focused on the stark realism of the Great War, this Oxford-educated philologist sought to fill a perceived void in English culture by constructing a vast, interconnected legendarium rooted in the ...

Deep in the mud of the Somme in 1916, a young officer of the Lancashire Fusiliers began scribbling a mythology that would eventually redefine the boundaries of modern literature. While his contemporaries focused on the stark realism of the Great War, this Oxford-educated philologist sought to fill a perceived void in English culture by constructing a vast, interconnected legendarium rooted in the ...