“The old definition of poetry as emotion remembered in tranquillity is true, and just now it is especially true.”
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…