Alfred Noyes was born on 16 September 1880 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and died on 25 June 1958 at his home on the Isle of Wight. During the first decades of the twentieth century he was among the best-known English poets in the world: a writer whose books sold widely, whose recitations drew large audiences, and whose poems entered schools, anthologies, music halls, and family memory. He was celebrated above all…
“Science has accomplished marvels for the material comforts of mankind, but it has been divorced from philosophy and it has misled the world by suggesting that the greater values can be produced by the less.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Folk & Ballad Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Tenderness
Henry John Newbolt was born on 6 June 1862 at Bilston, Staffordshire, into a clerical and professional English family whose assumptions about duty, learning, faith, service, and social order would remain visible throughout his work. He became one of the most widely known poets of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, celebrated above all for robust ballads of sailors, soldiers, schoolboys, explorers, and imperial end…
“The test of a poem is that it should be memorable.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Spirituality
