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Laurence Binyon was a poet, playwright, art-historian an authority on Far Eastern painting , and in his old age a professor of literature, though employed for most of his working life as a civil servant in the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings. He was born, a vicar's son, in Lancaster in and went to St Paul's, one of the great public schools, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry.

In he joined the staff of the British Museum and stayed there, off and on, until , retiring as Keeper of Prints and Drawings. In he married Cicely Powell: they had three daughters.

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In , now aged forty-seven, he served as an orderly with the Red Cross on the Western Front. His book about it all, For Dauntless France , was published in Post-war he went back to the Museum where, as well as his day job as a Keeper, he wrote books on among other things Blake, eighteenth-century English watercolourists Girton, Cotman, Towne , and Persian and Japanese art.

His own Collected Poems came out in when he was already sixty-two. The following year he was appointed Companion of Honour and the year after that Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. His tenure was cut short in by the German invasion and occupation. Binyon died in Reading in Four years later the first, and only, part of his Arthurian verse trilogy was published under the title The Madness of Merlin.

Binyon himself began writing poetry in what Hopkins called 'sprung rhythm' which simply means paying attention to the stresses and letting the unstressed syllables to take care of themselves.

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It was a style he followed for the rest of life. His plays, too, were in verse. One, Attila , staged in was set to music by Sir Charles Stanford.