+ − N Y Times p22 D 26 ’20 680w
“‘The elfin artist’ is the product of the author’s mature lyric gift, rich in variety or form and theme, and offering an equal appeal to the emotions and to the mind.” Philip Tillinghast
+ Pub W 98:664 S 18 ’20 500w
“Mr Noyes continues to annoy the devotees of all the varieties of free verse by his ability to use rhyme, and to observe the rules of prosody.” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:249 S 22 ’20 140w
“His gift to literature is twofold. He can write well himself and he can prevent others from writing badly.”
+ − Spec 124:729 My 29 ’20 700w
“With one or two exceptions, each of Mr Noyes’s poems is no better and no worse than any of the others. To study the volume is to get the impression of sameness, of easy fluidity, of lack both of thought and of labour. His simplicity is not the simplicity of compression and refinement. His responsiveness sweeps away his thought.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p381 Je 17 ’20 600w + Wis Lib Bul 16:235 D ’20 50w
NOYES, FRANCES NEWBOLD. My A. E. F.; a hail and farewell. *$1 (12c) Stokes 940.373