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Laurence Binyon

1869–1943

Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) was an English poet, playwright and art historian, born in Lancaster and educated at St Paul’s School and Oxford. He worked at the British Museum, where he became Keeper of Prints and Drawings and a leading authority on Asian art.

He is best known for “For the Fallen,” published in The Times in September 1914, whose fourth stanza is read at Remembrance services. He also wrote odes, narrative poems and a verse translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Poems (20)

  1. For the Fallen
  2. The Fourth of August
  3. To the Belgians
  4. The New World
  5. Men of Verdun
  6. Oxford in War-Time
  7. The Healers
  8. The Orphans of Flanders
  9. Youth
  10. Testamentum Amoris
  11. Psyche
  12. A Song
  13. The House That Was
  14. The Little Dancers
  15. The Statues
  16. Amasis
  17. Day's End
  18. O World, be Nobler
  19. Ferry Hinksey
  20. Little Hands

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