BINYON

binyon, laurence (1869- ), english poet, born at lancaster on the 10th of august 1869, was educated at st paul's school, london, and trinity college, oxford, where he won the newdigate prize in 1890 for his _persephone_. he entered the department of printed books at the british museum in 1893, and was transferred to the department of prints and drawings in 1895, the _catalogue of english drawings in the british museum_ (1898, &c.) being by him. as a poet he is represented by _lyric poems_ (1894), _poems_ (oxford, 1895), _london visions_ (2 vols., 1895-1898), _the praise of life_ (1896), _porphyrion and other poems_ (1898), _odes_ (1900), _the death of adam_ (1903), _penthesilea_ (1903), _dream come true_ (1905), _paris and oenone_ (1906), a one-act tragedy, and _attila_, a poetical drama (1907); as an art critic by monographs on the 17th-century dutch etchers, on john crome and john sell cotman, contributed to the _portfolio_, &c. in 1906 he published the first volume of a series of reproductions from william blake, with a critical introduction. see also r.a. streatfeild, _two poets of the new century_ (1901), and w. archer, _poets of the younger generation_ (1902).