The Unrecognized Air

Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) was an English poet and essayist who was educated at Oxford, gave a series of lectures at Harvard, and taught modern English literature at Princeton before entering the Catholic Church in 1925. He was a master at writing ballads and known as the “twentieth-century Homer” for his epics Drake and The Torch-bearers. Some of his finest prose is found in The Opalescent Parrot, The Unknown God, and Pageant of Letters. As in the present instance, which explores the Christian influence on the great literature of the West, he frequently gave his literary essays a poetic touch.

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