Drawing of Laurence Binyon by William Strang, 1901
Born
Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-08-10)10 August 1869 Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Died
10 March 1943(1943-03-10) (aged 73) Reading, Berkshire, England
Occupation
Poet, dramatist, scholar
Spouse
Cicely Margaret Powell
Children
Helen Binyon Margaret Binyon Nicolete Gray
Relatives
T. J. Binyon (great-nephew)[1] Camilla Gray (granddaughter)
Binyon's birthplace, 1 High Street, Lancaster
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. In 1904 he married the historian Cicely Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, including the artist Nicolete Gray.
Moved by the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, Binyon wrote his most famous work "For the Fallen", which is often recited at Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In 1915, he volunteered as a hospital orderly in France and afterwards worked in England, helping to take care of the wounded of the Battle of Verdun. He wrote about these experiences in For Dauntless France, re-released as a centenary edition in 2018 as The Call and the Answer. After the war, he continued his career at the British Museum, writing numerous books on art.
He was appointed Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 1933. Between 1933 and his death in 1943, he published his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. His war poetry includes a poem about the London Blitz, "The Burning of the Leaves", regarded by many as his masterpiece.
^"T. J. Binyon". The Independent. 13 October 2004.
Robert LaurenceBinyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were...
is a poem written by LaurenceBinyon. It was first published in The Times in September 1914. It was also published in Binyon's book "The Winnowing Fan :...
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April 2016). "Anzac Day: The Ode of Remembrance is taken from the LaurenceBinyon poem For The Fallen". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived...
major exception is the fourth verse of the poem For the Fallen by LaurenceBinyon, which is often known as The Ode to the Fallen, or simply as The Ode...
we that are left grow old" from the 1914 poem "For the Fallen" by LaurenceBinyon, famous for being used in the Ode of Remembrance. They Shall Not Grow...
parts (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise) at Project Gutenberg. 1933–1943 LaurenceBinyon Terza rima. Translated with assistance from Ezra Pound. Used in The...
She was the youngest daughter of the poet, dramatist and art scholar LaurenceBinyon and his wife, writer, editor and translator Cicely Margaret Pryor Powell...
mixed with the cream of London's literary circle, including Hewlett, LaurenceBinyon, Frederic Manning, Ernest Rhys, May Sinclair, Ellen Terry, George Bernard...
Bose, a leading figure in the Brahmo Samaj. He was the best friend of LaurenceBinyon. Manmohan was the second of siblings. The eldest was his brother, Benoybhusan...
or lover in Arthurian fiction, poetry and drama by writers such as LaurenceBinyon, John Cowper Powys, John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy and Stephen R. Lawhead...
did, however, remain sufficiently powerful to persuade Thomas Hardy, LaurenceBinyon and John Masefield to compose Arthurian plays, and T. S. Eliot alludes...
General of Canada 3 June 1932 E. V. Lucas 1868–1938 Writer 3 June 1932 LaurenceBinyon 1869–1943 Poet 2 January 1933 Tubby Clayton 1885–1972 Priest and philanthropist...
illustrator and a puppeteer. Binyon was born in Chelsea in London, her father being the poet and scholar LaurenceBinyon, and was educated at St Paul's...
their application is fluid, varying according to period and artist". LaurenceBinyon, The flight of the dragon : an essay on the theory and practice of...
at the Festival of Remembrance, singing "For the Fallen", a poem by LaurenceBinyon set to music by Karl Jenkins. It is featured on the special 10th anniversary...
Arthurian romance, and has been drawn on by modern writers such as LaurenceBinyon and Mary Stewart. The author briefly addresses the dedicatee of the...
Lovell Beddoes - Hilaire Belloc - A. C. Benson - L. S. Bevington - LaurenceBinyon - Samuel Laman Blanchard - Mathilde Blind - Robert Bridges - Anne Brontë...
have included Robert Stephen Hawker, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, LaurenceBinyon, Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds, James Laver, Donald...
Vaughan Williams and the ending of Mike Sammes' choral setting of LaurenceBinyon's poem For the Fallen. Robert Graves's poem "The Last Post" describes...
sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878) March 10 LaurenceBinyon, English poet and scholar (b. 1869) Tully Marshall, American character...
literary figures like William Michael Rossetti, LaurenceBinyon, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Laurence Housman, Arthur Symons and the young Arthur...
ravishes the eye, independently of any subject and any imitation. To LaurenceBinyon however, "Bonington's extraordinary technical gift was also his enemy...
A. E. - Lascelles Abercrombie - H. C. Beeching - Hilaire Belloc - LaurenceBinyon - W. S. Blunt - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - William Canton - P...
poetry, drama Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) Anders Österling (1884–1981) LaurenceBinyon (1869–1943) Edith Morley (1875–1964) John Bailey (1864–1931) Arthur...
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