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“The winds of the air have become his desires, and the clouds his wandering thoughts; the mountain-peaks are his lonely aspirations, and the torrents his liberated energies.”

Describing the artist's inner life as fused with the energies of nature. · Essay, The Flight of the Dragon (1911)

About Laurence Binyon

Laurence Binyon

10 August 1869–10 March 1943

Laurence Binyon was born in Lancaster, England, on 10 August 1869, and died in Reading on 10 March 1943. During his lifetime he occupied an unusual and influential place in British cultural life: he was a poet, dramatist, translator, art historian, museum curator, critic, and lecturer. Yet public memory has narrowed…

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