Laurence Binyon manuscript material : 1 item ca. early-mid 20th century

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Laurence Binyon manuscript material : 1 item ca. early-mid 20th century

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Laurence Binyon, British poet and art historian. A popular poet in his lifetime, Binyon also enjoyed a long career at the British Museum and wrote seminal works of criticism on William Blake. Holograph poem, "Shelley's Pyre" : no date (S'ANA 0632), 4 pages, ruled paper ; a dramatic verse dialoge between the spirits of the elements: Earth, Air, Water and Fire.

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...