American Impressions
As a poet, Alfred Noyes is credited with much studious innovation in metre and verse forms. But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne.
Similarly in his essays, Alfred Noyes, commentator, says nicely what he has to say but what he has to say has almost all been said. For this reason he is a most serviceable person. He wraps up...
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