Laurence Binyon

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Binyon, portrayed by William Strang in 1901

Robert Laurence Binyon (born August 10, 1869 in Lancaster , † March 10, 1943 in Reading ) was an English poet , playwright and art historian.

Life

Binyon was the son of Frederick Binyon (a minister and clergyman) and his wife Mary (nee Dockray), a daughter of Robert Benson Dockray. After finishing school at St Paul's School , he studied Classical Studies at Trinity College of the University of Oxford . In 1890 he made a first degree in Honor Moderations in Classics, in 1892 the degree in Literae humaniores . He then got a job in a department for printed literature in the British Museum in London in 1893 . 1895 was transferred to the department for prints and drawings. There he created scientific catalogs for the museum and monographs in the field of art. His first work on painting appeared in 1895. This was followed by works on William Blake or on Japanese and Chinese art. Binyon remained a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings until 1933 . In 1904 he married Cicely Margaret Powell. In 1913 he became head of the newly established department for oriental prints and drawings.

During the First World War he was a volunteer at the Red Cross and supported wounded soldiers as an orderly in 1916. In his poem For the Fallen (1914) he recalls the English soldiers of this war. In 1933 he retired from museum operations and became Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 1933/34 . He had a daughter Nicolete Mary Binyon (1911-1997).

Fonts (selection)

  • Persephone; the Newdigate poem . Blackwell, Oxford 1890 ( archive.org ).
  • Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century . Seeley & Co., London 1895, OCLC 1088892922 .
  • Japanese Art: The Kano School . Boarding school Publishing house f. Art u. Lit., Berlin 1910, OCLC 252061441 .
  • The drawings and engravings of William Blake . The Studio, London 1922 ( archive.org ).

literature

  • Binyon, Laurence . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 952 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • John Trevor Hatcher: Laurence Binyon. Poet, scholar of East and West . Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-812296-9 .
  • Richard Humphreys: Binyon, (Robert) Laurence . In: Dictionary of Art . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, OCLC 5104577220 .

Web links

Commons : Laurence Binyon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lee Sorensen: Binyon, Laurence. In: Dictionary of Art Historians. 2018, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Robert Laurence Binyon: Introduction à la peinture de la Chine et du Japon. 1912.
personal data
SURNAME Binyon, Laurence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binyon, Robert Laurence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet, playwright and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Lancaster (Lancashire)
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1943
Place of death Reading