Male : Poet who, unusually, managed to live by his poetry (only Tennyson had achieved this previously). Married Garnet Daniels in 1907 (died 1926) & Mary Wild-Blundell in 1927. Became a Catholic in 1927

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Wolverhampton

Date of Birth : 1880 Date of Death : 1958 Age : 78

Other Work : Professor of Literature at Princeton 1914-23

Education : Exeter College, Oxford

1902-1910
The Loom of the Years (1902 Grant Richards)
The Flower of Old Japan : A Dim Strange Tale for All Ages (1903)
Poems (1904 Blackwood)
The Forest of Wild Thyme : A Tale for Children Under Ninety (1905)
Drake : An English Epic (1906-8) - 2 vols
Poems (1906)
Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems (1907)
The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1908)
William Morris (1908)
(Ed) The Magic Casement : An Anthology of Fairy Poetry (nd. 1908 Chapman & Hall) - Stephen Reid
(Ed) The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (edited by Sir Walter Scott) (1908)
The Enchanted Island and Other Poems (1909)
In Memory of Swinburne (1909)
Collected Poems (1910-27) - 4 vols
(Ed) The Temple of Beauty : An Anthology (1910)

1911-1915
The Prayer for Peace (1911)
Sherwood, or Robin Hood and the Three Kings (1911) - Play
The Carol of the Fir Tree (1912)
Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (1913 Blackwood)
Two Christmas Poems (1913)
The Wine Press : A Tale of War (1913)
A Tale of Old Japan (1914)
Rada : A Drama of War (1914)
The Searchlights (1914)
The Lord of Misrule & Other Poems (1915 Stokes, NY)
A Salute from the Fleet and Other Poems (1915)

1916-1920
Songs of the Trawlers (1916)
Mystery Ships : Trapping the "U-Boat" (1916 Hodder & Stoughton)
What is England Doing ? (1916)
(Ed) A Book of Princeton Verse (1916)
Open Boats (1917)
The Avenue of the Allies, and Victory (1918)
The New Morning (1918)
Walking Shadows (1918 Cassell) (1918 Stokes, NY) - ss
Beyond the Desert : A Tale of Death Valley (1920)
The Elfin Artist and Other Poems (1920)

1921-1925
Selected Verse (1921)
The Torchbearers (1922-30) - 3 vols
Watchers of the Sky (1922 Stokes NY)
Songs of Shadow-of-a-Leaf & Other Poems (1924)
The Hidden Player (1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
Some Aspects of Modern Poetry (1924)
Princeton, May 1917 : The Call of the Spring (1925)
(Ed) Helicon Poetry Series (1925) - 4 vols

1926-1930
Dick Turpin's Ride and Other Poems (1927)
New Essays and American Impressions (1927)
Ballads and Poems (1928)
The Strong City (1928)
The Return of the Scare-Crow (1929)
The Opalescent Parrot : Essays (1929)
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)
Forty Singing Seamen & Other Poems (1930 Stokes, NY) - McKinstery

1931-1940
Tennyson (1932)
The Unknown God (1934)
Poems : The Author's Own Selection for Schools (1935)
Happiness and Success (1936) - with S Baldwin
Voltaire (1936)
The Cormorant (1936)
Youth and Memory (1937)
Wizards (1938)
Orchard's Bay : Essays and Verse (1939 Sheed & Ward)
Pageant of Letters : ESsays (1940)
The Last Man (1940)

1941-1950
If Judgment Comes (1941)
Poems of the New World (1942)
The Edge of the Abyss : Lectures (1942)
The Secret of Pooduck Island (1943) - Juvenile
Shadows on the Downs & Other Poems (nd.1945 Hutchinson)
(Ed) The Golden Book of Catholic Poetry (1946)
Collected Poems (1947)
Portrait of Horace (1947)
The Assumption : An Answer (1950)
A Roehampton School Song (1950)
Poems (1950)

After 1951
Daddy Fell into the Pond and Other Poems for Children (1952)
Two Worlds for Memory (1953 Sheed & Ward) - autobiography
The Devil Takes a Holiday (1955 John Murray)
A Letter to Lucian and Other Poems (1956)
The Accusing Ghost, or Justice for Casement (1957)
The Highwayman (1981 OUP) - Charles Keeping

READING
Walter Jerrold : Alfred Noyes (1930)
D G Larg : Alfred Noyes (1936)
(Ed) Mark T Mason : Alfred Noyes - A Bibliography (1998 M T Mason, London)