biography
pronunciation:
[noyz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1958)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, C England, UK. His first book of poetry was completed while studying at Oxford, which he left without taking a degree. His most successful work deals with the sea and the Elizabethan tradition, notably the epic Drake (2 vols, 1908). Having married an American, he travelled in the USA, and became visiting professor of poetry at Princeton (1914–23). In 1922 appeared The Torchbearers, a panegyric in blank verse on the hitherto comparatively unsung men of science. He published literary essays in Some Aspects of Modern Poetry (1924), a defence of traditionalism, and he also wrote plays, and studies of William Morris and Voltaire. |
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