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A Short Biography of Laurence Binyon

Author Name:

Laurence Binyon

Born As:

Robert Laurence Binyon

Other Names:

Robert Laurence Binyon

Born:

10 Aug 1869

Died:

10 Mar 1943




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Art historian, dramatist and poet                          
Selected Works:

Poems and verse:

Lyric Poems - 1894
Porphyrion and other Poems - 1898
Odes - 1901
Death of Adam and Other Poems - 1904
London Visions - 1908
England and Other Poems - 1909
For The Fallen - The Times, September 21 1914
Winnowing Fan - 1914
The Anvil - 1916
The Cause - 1917
The New World: Poems - 1918
The Idols - 1928

Collected Poems Vol 1: London Visions, Narrative Poems, Translations. - 1931
Collected Poems Vol 2: Lyrical Poems. - 1931

The North Star and Other Poems - 1941
The Burning of the Leaves and Other Poems - 1944
The Madness of Merlin - 1947

English arts & myth:

William Blake: Being all his Woodcuts Photographically Reproduced in Facsimile - 1902
English Poetry in its relation to painting and the other arts - 1918
Drawings and Engravings of William Blake - 1922
Arthur: A Tragedy - 1923
The Followers of William Blake - 1925
The Engraved Designs of William Blake - 1926
Landscape in English Art and Poetry - 1931
English Watercolours - 1933
Gerard Hopkins and his influence - 1939
Art and freedom. - The Romanes lecture, delivered 25 May 1939. Oxford: The Clarendon press, - 1939

Japanese & Persian arts:

Painting in the Far East - 1908
Japanese Art - 1909
Flight of the Dragon - 1911
The Court Painters of the Grand Moguls - 1921
Japanese Colour Prints - 1923
The Poems of Nizami - 1928 - Translation
Persian Miniature Painting - 1933
The Spirit of Man in Asian Art - 1936

Autobiography:

For Dauntless France - 1918 - War memoir

Stage plays:

Brief Candles - Richard III's life as a verse-drama
Godstow Nunnery: Play
Boadicea; A Play in eight Scenes
Attila: a Tragedy in Four Acts
Ayuli: a Play in three Acts and an Epilogue
Sophro the Wise: a Play for Children