Can you guess this mystery author?

clue #1 he was born in england

clue #2 he was in the british army during world war 1.

i'm thinking cs lewis

The speaker describes the urn as a historian in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats because he describes that the urn can tell stories from times past. This excerpt is taken from the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written by John Keats in 1819 about an art side of an urn. He believes that the urn can tell stories from the depicted figure on the side of the urn.