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    The Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume I: Lyric Poems
    The Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume I: Lyric Poems
    The Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume I: Lyric Poems
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    Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on August 10th, 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics. Binyon’s first published work was Persephone in 1890. As a poet, his output was not prodigious and, in the main, the volumes he did publish were slim. But his reputation was of the highest order. When the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, died in 1913, Binyon was considered alongside Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling for the post which was given to Robert Bridges. Binyon played a pivotal role in helping to establish the modernist School of poetry and introduced imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) to East Asian visual art and literature. Most of his career was spent at The British Museum where he produced many books particularly centering on the art of the Far East. Moved and shaken by the onset of the World War I and its military tactics of young men slaughtered to hold or gain a few yards of shell-shocked mud Binyon wrote his seminal poem For the Fallen. It became an instant classic, turning moments of great loss into a National and human tribute. After the war, he returned to the British Museum and wrote numerous books on art; especially on William Blake, Persian and Japanese art. In 1931, his two volume Collected Poems appeared and in 1933, he retired from the British Museum. Between 1933 and 1943, Binyon published his acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in an English version of terza rima. During the Second World War Binyon wrote another poetic masterpiece 'The Burning of the Leaves', about the London Blitz. Robert Laurence Binyon died in Dunedin Nursing Home, Bath Road, Reading, on March 10th, 1943 after undergoing an operation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateFeb 21, 2017
    ISBN9781787370951
    The Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume I: Lyric Poems

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      The Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume I - Laurence Binyon

      The Poetry of Laurence Binyon

      Volume I – Lyric Poems

      Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on August 10th, 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray.

      He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics.

      Binyon’s first published work was Persephone in 1890.  As a poet, his output was not prodigious and, in the main, the volumes he did publish were slim.  But his reputation was of the highest order. When the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, died in 1913, Binyon was considered alongside Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling for the post which was given to Robert Bridges.

      Binyon played a pivotal role in helping to establish the modernist School of poetry and introduced imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) to East Asian visual art and literature. Most of his career was spent at The British Museum where he produced many books particularly centering on the art of the Far East.

      Moved and shaken by the onset of the World War I and its military tactics of young men slaughtered to hold or gain a few yards of shell-shocked mud Binyon wrote his seminal poem For the Fallen. It became an instant classic, turning moments of great loss into a National and human tribute.

      After the war, he returned to the British Museum and wrote numerous books on art; especially on William Blake, Persian and Japanese art.

      In 1931, his two volume Collected Poems appeared and in 1933, he retired from the British Museum.

      Between 1933 and 1943, Binyon published his acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in an English version of terza rima.

      During the Second World War Binyon wrote another poetic masterpiece 'The Burning of the Leaves', about the London Blitz.

      Robert Laurence Binyon died in Dunedin Nursing Home, Bath Road, Reading, on March 10th, 1943 after undergoing an operation.

      Index of Contents

      IN CARISSIMAM MEMORIAM - A. S. P.

      PSYCHE

      POEM I - (She is not fair, as some are fair)

      POEM II - (A child in nature, as a child in years)

      POEM III - AN APRIL DAY

      POEM IV - A DIALOGUE

      POEM V - NIOBE

      POEM VI - TESTAMENTUM AMORIS

      POEM VII - (As in the dusty lane to fern or flower,

      POEM VIII - (The evening takes me from your side;

      POEM IX - YOUTH

      POEM X - TO A SOLITARY FIR-TREE

      POEM XI - PRESENT AND FUTURE

      POEM XII - ON A FIGURE OF JUSTICE WITH BOUND EYES

      POEM XIII - (Sweet after labour, soft and whispering night)

      POEM XIV - (O Summer sun, O moving trees!)

      POEM XV - DISAPPOINTMENT

      POEM XVI - AMO, ERGO SUM

      POEM XVII - (Name, that makes my heart beat)

      POEM XVIII - (O World, be nobler, for her sake!)

      POEM XIX - RECOLLECTIONS OF CORNWALL

      POEM XX - KENNACK SANDS

      POEM XXI - THE AUTUMN CROCUS

      POEM XXII - STARS

      POEM XXIII - PINE TREES

      POEM XXIV - TWILIGHT

      POEM XXV - (Now that I have won)

      POEM XXVI - (No more now with jealous complaining)

      POEM XXVII - MIDSUMMER VIGIL

      POEM XXVIII - (Ask me not, Dear, what thing it is)

      POEM XXIX - CHERWELL STREAM

      POEM XXX - TINTAGEL

      POEM XXXI - (Ah, now this happy month is gone)

      POEM XXXII - (Do kings put faith in fortressed walls, and bar)

      POEM XXXIII - (O sorrowful thought! But one more flying year)

      POEM XXXIV - (Vision

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