Author Description

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) is best remembered today for his 1914 Great War elegy "For the Fallen," but his importance extends well beyond this one famous poem. This is the first critical biography of one of the most remarkable scholar-artists in British cultural history, exploring all aspects of Binyon's richly varied career as poet, dramatist, translator, Western art historian, and pioneering scholar of Asian art and culture.