Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has published thirty-three books including Robert Lowell in Love (Massachusetts, 2015), The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville (Sussex Academic, 2016), and Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy (Virginia, 2018).
In a letter of December 1910, the young T. E. Lawrence defined civilization as “the power of appreciating the character and achievements of peoples in a different stage than ourselves.” No Englishman had a greater understanding of the past...