“I do not believe and never have believed in the pacifist who says that a man shall not defend himself or his country from attack or that treaties should be broken with impunity.”
About 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…