...John Owen Beaty Copyright © 1915 by Duke University Press 1915 The Poetry of Alfred Noyes John Owen Beaty It is exceedingly difficult to form a correct estimate of the works of any contemporary writer. This should prove espec­ ially true in the case of Mr. Alfred Noyes who is not yet...

...F. K. Mitchell The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604–1755 . By Starnes De Witt T. Noyes Gertrude E. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1946 . Pp. 299 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 297 The English...

...-1755. By De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1946. Pp. 299. $3.00. This very careful study attempts an analysis and history of English lexicography from Robert Cawdrey s A Table Atyhabeticall in 1604 down to Dr. Johnson s Dictionary...

... the cause of trade expansion in the southern and eastern Mediterranean regions. In August, 1879, he au­ thorized the American Minister to France, General Edward F. Noyes, to undertake a voyage of commercial exploration to North Africa and the Middle East.20 In directing Noyes to pursue this mission, Evarts...

... than upon the novelists. John Masefield, con­ summate poet that he is, is no longer content with the muse; but feels obliged to give us prose books on the Dardanelles campaign, and articles on ambulance in France. Alfred Noyes alas! is inditing a few mediocre verses and pouring forth a veritable deluge...

... impressed with the merits of the plan for federal regulation proposed by Judge Noyes, of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas, who is also president of the New London Northern Railroad Com­ pany.* Judge Noyes maintains that the question of the reasonableness of a rate is a judicial one and must, under our...

... in this admirable survey of our marvelous American life. Eare E. Bradsher. University of Texas. Coeeected Poems. By Alfred Noyes. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 2 volumes. $3.00 net. To predict literary immortality for any contemporary author is always dangerous business, yet the writer of this review...

... Railroad Rates. By Walter Chadwick Noyes. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1905, 277 pp. Professor Meyer has contributed to the current discussion a vigorous argument against the government regulation of railway rates. He frankly says that his book appears at the present time because of the possibility...

... thoughtful enough to import it at times in the shape of a Noyes ballade or a Masefield realism, but even then our joy has its proverbial thorn. We welcome the male voice with all the enthusiasm we would bestow on a longlost brother, and in consequence we are called literary snobs. But then we have passed...

... time to celebrate himself or sing himself. But let us take a more shining example. Of all the living poets who use our language as a medium of expression the most popular with cultivated readers is probably Alfred Noyes. And to what does he owe his popularity ? To narrative poetry ? Well, it must...

... for the music of the con­ ventional verse forms, in his regard for Alfred Noyes as the foremost poet of our day and his evident leaning to the late Madison Cawein as deserving a similar rank among the latterday poets of America. A passage will illustrate: Long after erudite students shall have ceased...

..., Mother Ann Lee and the Shaker communities, and the Oneida Perfectionist experiment of John Humphrey Noyes. In the next chapter, T. D. Seymour Bassett describes Secular Utopian So­ cialists, beginning with the Europeans, Owen, Fourier, Cabet, and Weitling, and developing quite fully the story of Owenism...

... community turned its property over to a joint-stock company. Most American communities are identified not only by their scorn for private property but also by attacks upon religious orthodoxy and the dominant familiar mores. John Humphrey Noyes s complex marriage, regarded by outsiders as nothing less...

... but also by attacks upon religious orthodoxy and the dominant familiar mores. John Humphrey Noyes s complex marriage, regarded by outsiders as nothing less than free love, had a precarious ex­ istence in Oneida Community: when the majority of the group voted to return to monogamous unions, the idea...

... puerile, so trivial that we cannot condescend to notice them. And at this juncture it devolves upon me to point out the falsi­ ty of the assertion that present-day American poetry is lacking in merit. That, as is often stated, the United States today boasts no poet comparable to Alfred Noyes or William...

... the works of this strange writer. I will confess to an occasional flash of admiration as he created some extremely vivid image, but on the whole, I real his poems with a feeling of tolerant amusement. I do not consider myself an absolute reactionary, by any means. I read the works of Masefield, Noyes...

... in Noyes s Drake, are worthy of enthusiastic praise. Particularly charming is the Spanish lady s guitar song, near the end of Book XIV. Here are five stanzas of it: Time flies, and flying, gathers one by one The buds that burgeon at Life s golden gate; Be wooed and wedded ere thy day is done; Man roams...

.... Personally, I must confess that I miss in the verse of Louis Untermeyer many of the things that are most dear to me as a lover of poetry. To put the matter specifically, I do not find in his work the airy delicacy of some of Noyes s and Drinkwater s shorter lyrics, the superb finish of most of Sir William...

.... We cannot, more­ over, afford to pout if as a literary people we do not quite rival all the European nations. We may not have any Galsworthy or Alfred Noyes, any Maeterlinck or Sudermann; but why, in the name of common sense, need that make us despondent? Why can we not remember...

... writers have been even more friendly toward us than were their predecessors. Al­ fred Noyes, for instance, has poetized our land repeatedly, and always in a laudatory spirit. H. G. Wells, in that mar­ velous war novel, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, makes Mr. Direck, the American, one of the most lovable...