Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958), English poet, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Noyes had three boyhood interests: the sea, astronomy, and poetry. Noyes attended Oxford from 1898 to 1903; in 1902 his first volume of verse appeared, called The Loom of Years. Until 1930 he wrote prolifically in lyrical, narrative, and dramatic poetic forms. His epic poem Drake (1908) established his popularity as a writer of highly colored narrative poems. When Noyes was 32, he published Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (1912), dealing with such figures as English playwrights Shakespeare and Marlowe. Over an eight-year period he published a poetic trilogy on science, The Torch Bearers (1922, 1925, 1930). Noyes was a professor of modern literature at Princeton from 1914 to 1923, and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1918. He became Roman Catholic in 1925 and published several works on theology, history, and biography. Noyes's autobiography is Two Worlds for Memory (1953) and his spiritual autobiography is The Unknown God (1934). "Noyes, Alfred," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes:
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
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