Laurence Binyon — 1920 the Secret: Sixty Poems

London , Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A collection of sixty poems by English poet, dramatist and art scholar Laurence Binyon. The first edition. A collection of sixty short poems exploring natural, rural life and friendship. Each poem explores ideas connection. Landscape is explored in the form of man-made to nature. Binyon questions how our relationship changes in relation to ideas of natural and nature. Landscape is shown to impact how we behave and interact with one another but also ourselves.Binyon is best known for his poem 'For the Fallen' which is traditionally recited on Remembrance Sunday. Bound in a quarter cloth. Externally fairly smart. Fading to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Offsetting to the front and back pastedown. Pages bright and clean with marginal age toning. Pages roughly cut. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .