Poems

Laurence Binyon, poet and art historian, met Daniel as a student at Oxford. He went on to a distinguished career at the British Museum and later served as Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. This collection of 26 poems, printed here for the first time, shows the author’s debt to the innovative prosody of Bridges and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The light orange lettering on the cover was thought to be too dull against the blue-gray paper and was changed to black in later copies.