NOYES, Alfred

NOYES, Alfred
(1880-1958)
   UK poet and man of letters, best known during his life for extremely long epic poems like Drake (2 vols 1906-8) and The Torchbearers (3 vols 1922-30), the latter depicting the march of science. He wrote somefantasy and horror - in the form of narrative poems in Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (coll 1914) and in the form of prose tales in WalkingShadows: Sea Tales and Others (coll 1918) and The Hidden Player (coll 1924). Beyond the Desert: A Tale of Death Valley (1920 chap US) and The Devil Takes a Holiday (1955) are fantasies. The Secret of Pooduck Island (1943) is a juvenile. Of sf interest is a post- HOLOCAUST novel, The Last Man (1940; vt No Other Man 1940 US), in which a doomsday ray stops all human hearts, petrifying the corpses. A few survivors - man, woman and (male) evil SCIENTIST-finally reach Assisi, which has been miraculouslysaved. AN was a fervent Roman Catholic (converted in 1930), an ardent anti-Modernist, an early Japanophile and a defender of VOLTAIRE and Charles Parnell (1846-1891). In several novels Gordon R. DICKSON haspraised his lyric poetry.
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  • Noyes, Alfred — (1880 1958)    Born in Wolverhampton (West Midlands), the son of a teacher, he was educated on the classics at schools in Aberystwyth, Wales, and at Exeter College, Oxford, though he did not graduate. In 1913 he gave the Lowell lectures at Boston …   British and Irish poets

  • Noyes, Alfred — ▪ British poet born Sept. 16, 1880, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Eng. died June 28, 1958, Isle of Wight       English poet, a traditionalist remembered chiefly for his lyrical verse.       Noyes first volume of poems, The Loom of Years (1902),… …   Universalium

  • Noyes, Alfred — (b. 1880)    Poet, etc. The Loom of Years (1902), The Flower of Old Japan (1903), Poems (1904), The Forest of Wild Thyme (1905), Drake (an English epic) (1906), William Morris (1907), The Enchanted Island (1909) …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • Alfred Noyes — Alfred Noyes. Alfred Noyes (* 16. September 1880 in Wolverhampton, England; † 28. Juni 1958 auf der Isle of Wight) war ein englischer Dichter, bekannt für seine Balladen The Highwayman (1906) und The Barrel Organ. Noyes wurde als …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Alfred Noyes — Alfred Noyes, né à Wolverhampton le 16 septembre 1880 et mort à l Île de Wight le 25 juin 1958, est un poète anglais, connu surtout pour ses ballades The Highwayman (« Le bandit de grand chemin ») et The Barrel Organ (« L orgue de… …   Wikipédia en Français

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  • Noyes —   [nɔɪz], Alfred, englischer Schriftsteller, * Wolverhampton 16. 9. 1880, ✝ Ryde (Isle of Wight) 28. 6. 1958; 1914 23 Professor für englische Literatur an der Princeton University; schrieb Erzählungen, das Blankversepos »Drake« (1906 08, 2 Bände) …   Universal-Lexikon

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