Binyon (Robert) Laurence

Japanese: ビニョン（英語表記）Binyon， (Robert) Laurence

Born: August 10, 1869 in Lancaster
[Died] March 10, 1943, Reading. British art scholar, poet, and playwright. He studied at Oxford University and worked in the art department of the British Museum. He is known for his research on Oriental art, and has published many books. He also demonstrated his status as a scholar-poet through his works such as Lyric Poems (1894), which set beautiful lyricism in traditional poetic form, and was a pioneer in the revival of blank verse drama. He also translated Dante's Divine Comedy. He came to Japan in 1929.

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Japanese:

[生]1869.8.10. ランカスター
[没]1943.3.10. レディング
イギリスの美術研究家，詩人，劇作家。オックスフォード大学に学び，大英博物館の美術部門に勤務，特に東洋美術の研究で知られ多数の著書がある。一方美しい抒情を伝統的な詩型に乗せた『抒情詩集』 Lyric Poems (1894) 以下の詩業で学者詩人の面目を発揮し，また無韻詩劇復活の先駆者でもあった。ダンテ『神曲』の翻訳もある。 1929年来日した。

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