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9 unusual facts about Laurence Binyon

Act of Remembrance

Act of Remembrance is an extract from the poem "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon.

In 2003, aged 105, he was the only British veteran of the First World War to attend the Armistice Day Ceremony in Ypres, where he rose from his wheelchair and, in a clear and strong voice, recited Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen".

Binyon

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) was an English poet, dramatist, and art scholar.

H.D.

The early models for the Imagist group were from Japan, and H.D. often visited the exclusive Print Room at the British Museum in the company of Richard Aldington and the curator and poet Laurence Binyon in order to examine Nishiki-e prints that incorporated traditional Japanese verse.

Manmohan Ghose

His work was published in Primavera:Poems by Four Authors (1890), with Laurence Binyon, Arthur S. Cripps, and

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His daughter left for London and met Laurence Binyon, who helped her edit Songs of love and death, which was published in 1926.

Nandalal Bose

He had become part of an international circle of artists and writers seeking to revive classical Indian culture; a circle that already included Okakura Kakuzō, William Rothenstein, Yokoyama Taikan, Christiana Herringham, Laurence Binyon, Abanindranath Tagore, and the seminal London Modernist sculptors Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein.

Pentire Head

The poet Laurence Binyon wrote For The Fallen (first published in The Times in September, 1914) while sitting by the cliffs between Pentire Point and The Rumps.

The Rumps

The poet Laurence Binyon wrote For the Fallen in 1914 while sitting on the cliffs between Pentire Point and The Rumps.