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Robert Laurence Binyon

Male : Poet, Playwright, Translator & Critic. Married Cicely Pryor Powell in 1904
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Lancaster

Date of Birth : 1869 Date of Death : 1943 Age : 73

Other Work : Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum 1893-1933

Education : St Paul's School & Trinity College, Oxford
1890-1900
Persephone : The Newdigate Poem 1890
(1890 Blackwell, Oxford)
(Ed) Index of Artists in the Dept of Prints & Drawings in the British Museum (1893 Rev Ed)
Lyric Poems
(1894 Mathews & Lane) - 300
Poems
(1895 Daniel Press, Oxford) - 200
Dutch Etchers of the 17thC
(1895 Seeley, London)
First Book of London Visions
(1896 Elkin Mathews Shilling Garland)
The Praise of Life
(1896 Elkin Mathews Shilling Garland)
The Supper : A Lyrical Scene
(1897)
John Crome and John Sell Cotman
(1897 Seeley)
(Ed) The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors (1898 Elkin Mathews 3/6)
Porphyrion and Other Poems
(1898 Grant Richards)
(1907 Elkin Mathews. 2nd Ed. 5/-)
Second Book of London Visions
(1899 Elkin Mathews Shilling Garland)
Western Flanders : A Medley of Things Seen, Considered and Imagined
(1899)
Thomas Girton : His Life and Works - An Essay
(1900 Seeley £2. 2/-)

1901-1910
Odes
(1901 Unicorn Press, London) (1913 Elkin Mathews 2/6) - 1000
William Blake : Being all his Woodcuts Photolithographically Reproduced in Facsimile
(1902 At Sign of the Unicorn, London)
The Dream of Adam and Other Poems
(1903)
Penthesilia
(1905)
Dreams Come True
(1905 Eragny Press) - 175. Lucien Pissarro
Paris and Oenone
(1906) - Play
William Blake : Vol 1 - Illustrations of the Book of Job
(1906 Methuen)
Attila : A Tragedy in Four Acts
(1907 Murray)
Japanese Art
(1907)
(Ed) Pictures by Japanese Artists (1908)
London Visions : Collected and Augmented
(1908 Elkin Mathews 2/6) - 1000
Painting in the Far East
(1908 Edward Arnold, London) (1913. 2nd Ed)
England and Other Poems
(1909 Elkin Mathews 3/6) - 1000

1911-1920
The Flight of the Dragon : An Essay in the Theory & Practice of Art in China & Japan
(1911)
Auguries
(1913)
The Art of Botticelli : An Essay in Pictorial Criticism
(1913 Macmillan)
The Winnowing Fan : Poems of the Great War
(1914 Elkin Mathews)
(Ed) Masterpieces of Etching (1914) - 2 vols
Bombastes in the Shade
(1915) - Play
Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Woodcuts in the sub-Dept of Oriental
Prints & Drawings in BM
(1916 London)
(Ed) The Poetical Works of Keats (1916)
Mr Yuan's Landscape Roll in the Freer Collection
(1916)
The Anvil and Other Poems
(1916 Elkin Mathews)
The China Society : The Art of Asia - A Paper read by Binyon
(1916 London)
For the Fallen & Other Poems
(nd. 1917 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Cause : Poems of the War
(nd. 1918 Elkin Mathews 5/-)
For Dauntless France
(1918)
Poetry and Modern Life
(1918)
The New World : Poems
(1918 Elkin Mathews) (1919 EM. 2nd Ed)
The Four Years : War Poems Collected and Newly Augmented
(1919 Elkin Mathews 7/6)
Six Poems on Bruges
(1919)
The Secret : Sixty Poems
(1920 Elkin Mathews 6/-)
Sakuntala
(1920) - Play from Kaliidasa

1921-1925
The Court Painters of the Grand Moguls
(1921 OUP for the India Society) - 750. with T W Arnold
The Drawings & Engravings of William Blake
(1922 The Studio) - 200
Japanese Colour Prints
(1923) - with J J O Sexton
Arthur
(1923) - Play
Ayuli
(1923) - Play
The Sirens : An Ode
(1924)
(Ed) The Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics (1924)
Little Poems from the Japanese
(1925)
The Followers of William Blake : Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond &
Their Circle
(1925 Halcott & Truscott, London) - 100 signed
[Edward Calvert, 1799-1883, English painter & engraver]
Asiatic Art, in the British Museum : Sculpture and Painting
(1925 Paris & Brussels)
The Siren
(1925 Macmillan)

1926-1930
The Engraved Designs of William Blake
(1926 Benn, London) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Letters of Maurice Hewlett (1926)
(Ed) Songs of Love and Death by Manomohana Ghosha (1926)
(Ed) The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics : 19thC (Supplement to Palgrave) (1926)
Tradition and Reaction in Modern Poetry
(1926)
The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese Frescoes
(1927 Benn) - 560
Chinese Paintings in English Collections
(1927 Vanoest, Paris & Brussels)
A Binyon Anthology
(1927)
The Wonder Night
(1927 Ariel Poems, Faber)
Boadicea
(1927) - Play
Sophro the Wise
(1927) - Play for young people
The Poems of Nizami Described
(1928 The Studio)
The Idols : An Ode
(1928 Macmillan)
Love in the Desert
(1928) - Play
Three Short Plays
(1930 Sidgwick & Jackson)
Landscape in English Art and Poetry
(1930 Tokyo) (1931 Cobden Sanderson)

After 1931
Collected Poems
(1931 Macmillan) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Poems of William Blake (1931)
Akbar
(1932)
Koya San : Four Poems from Japan
(1932)
English Water-Colours
(1933 Black)
Persian Miniature Painting, including a Catalogue of the Exhibition at Burlington House
(1933 OUP) - et al
The Case of Christopher Smart
(1934)
The Young King
(1934) - Play
The Flight of the Dragon
(1935 Murray)
The Spirit of Man in Asian Art : Lectures
(1935)
The Poems of Nizami
(c1937 The Studio, London)
Brief Candles
(1938 Golden Cockerel Press) - Play. 100 signed by Binyon & Helen Binyon
The North Star & Other Poems
(1941)
(In : Horizon) British Museum Diversion : A Play for Puppets (1944)
The Madness of Merlin
(1947) - Edited by Gordon Bottomley

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