biography
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Binyon, (Robert) Laurence
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| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1943)
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| biography:
| Poet and art critic, born in Lancaster, Lancashire, NW England, UK. On leaving Oxford, he joined the British Museum, and became keeper of Oriental prints and paintings (1913–33). His poetic works include Lyric Poems (1894), Odes (1901), and Collected Poems (1931). He also wrote plays, and translated Dante into terza rima. He was professor of poetry at Harvard (1933–4). Extracts from his poem ‘For the Fallen’ (set to music by Elgar) adorn war memorials throughout the British Commonwealth. |
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