Alfred Noyes — a remark

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“The art of poetry has been so much a part of my own life that I am unable to think of it except as one speaks of the innermost sanctuary.”

On the sacred place of poetry in personal life · Lecture, 1913

About Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes

16 September 1880–25 June 1958

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…

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