A volume containing all of Mr Noyes’ poems written between October, 1913, and the present. With the two volumes published in 1913 it forms a complete edition of the poet’s verse to date. It comprises The Lord of Misrule and other poems; The wine-press; A Belgian Christmas eve; The new morning; The elfin artist and other poems.
Booklist 17:146 Ja ’21
“Mr Noyes possesses a delightful singing gift in his carefree moments—and can bore us almost to tears when the sense of his ‘message’ to the world descends upon him. When he turns to glamourous romantic ballads and to brief, sincere, intensely spiritual lyrics, such as ‘Paraclete,’ he is at his best.”
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“Whenever he writes sermons and dissertations and criticisms in verse he fails. Whenever he writes ballads he succeeds. However, there are a few other poems in this volume for which we should thank Mr Noyes, notably ‘Old gray squirrel,’ the pathetic ‘Court martial’ and ‘A victory dance.’”
+ − N Y Times p25 Ja 30 ’21 620w
NOYES, ALFRED. Elfin artist, and other poems. *$1.50 Stokes 821
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The elfin artist is the initial poem of this collection of verse written by the author since the spring of 1919. Some of the other poems are: Earth and her birds; Sea-distances; The inn of Apollo; The Sussex sailor; In southern California; The riddles of Merlin; The isle of memories; A ballad of the easier way; A Devonshire Christmas; Beautiful on the bough; The bride-ale; A sky song; A return from the air; A victory dance; The garden of peace; Four songs, after Verlaine.