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BINYON, LAURENCE (1869- )

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BINYON, LAURENCE (1869- ) , See also:English poet, See also:born at See also:Lancaster on the loth of See also:August 1869, was educated at St See also:Paul's school, See also:London, and Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he won the See also:Newdigate See also:prize in 1890 for his Persephone. He entered the See also:department of printed books at the See also:British Museum in 1893, and was transferred to the department of prints and drawings in 1895, the See also:Catalogue of English Drawings in the British Museum (1898, &c.) being by him. As a poet he is represented by Lyric Poems (1894), Poems (Oxford, 1895), London Visions (2 vols., 1895-1898), The Praise of See also:Life (1896), Porphyrion and other Poems (1898), Odes (1900), The See also:Death of See also:Adam (1903), Penthesilea (1905), See also:Dream come true (1905), See also:Paris and See also:Oenone (1906), a one-See also:act tragedy, and See also:Attila, a poetical See also:drama (1907); as an See also:art critic by monographs on the 17th-See also:century Dutch etchers, on See also:John See also:Crome and John Sell See also:Cotman, contributed to the See also:Portfolio, &c. In 1906 he published the first See also:volume of a See also:series of reproductions from See also:William See also:Blake, with a See also:critical introduction. See also R. A. Streatfeild, Two Poets of the New Century (1901), and W. See also:Archer, Poets of the Younger See also:Generation (1902). BIO-BIO, a See also:river of See also:southern See also:Chile, rising in the Pitto Hachado pass across the See also:Andes, 38° 45' S. See also:lat., and flowing in a See also:general See also:north-See also:westerly direction to the Pacific at Concepci6n, where it is 2 m. wide and forms an excellent See also:harbour. It has a See also:total length of about 225 m., nearly one See also:half of which is navigable. BIO-BIO, an inland See also:province of southern Chile, bounded N., W. and S. respectively by the provinces of Concepci6n, See also:Arauco and See also:Malleco, and E. by See also:Argentina. It has an See also:area of 5246 sq. m. of well-wooded and mountainous See also:country, and exports See also:timber to a large extent.

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great See also:trunk railway from See also:Santiago S. to Puerto See also:Montt crosses the western See also:part of the province and also connects it with the See also:port of Concepci6n. The See also:capital, Los Angeles (est. pop. 7777 in 1902) lies 152 M. E. of this railway and is connected with it by a See also:branch See also:line.

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