Alfred Noyes Summary

For his contemporaries the strong popular appeal of Alfred Noyes's poems lay in their lyrical and technical aspects--the heartiness of the songs, the heavy beat of the ballads, and the variety of metr... Read more

This review of Noyes 's Drake: An English Epic criticizes the work for its mediocre writing and lack of depth. Courage is a great quality everywhere; but perhaps it is seldom greater than in th... Read more

In the following review, Benét discussed two successful aspects of Noyes's poetry: its lyrical quality and metrical "accomplishment." There are two books before us by Alfre... Read more

In the following excerpt, Stanford praises Noyes's lyrical poems while noting that his non-lyrical poem "Drake" is less successful. … But it is, of course, with poetry that... Read more

In the following review, Bradley finds The Flower of Old Japan a disappointing effort in mediating between William Blake and Lewis Carroll. Mr. Noyes's second American publication will not, we ... Read more

In the following review, Le Gallienne classifies Drake as an anachronism, but not quite an epic There is no denying that at first sight Mr. Alfred Noyes's epic has the look of a fearsomely pond... Read more

Kilmer's review of Tales of the Mermaid Tavern suggests that this collection of poems elevates Noyes from a "jingle" writer to a place beside the "English Masters. "... Read more

In the following review, Noyes is noted for his "readability" while providing a history of astronomy in verse. We have grown apt during the last hundred years to think of poetry as somet... Read more