About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Alun Lewis, Alfred Noyes, Charles Bronson, Steve Jones, Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet, Roger Rees, Stephen Jones, Lewis Pugh Evans, Denis Griffiths, Steve Williams, David Russell Hulme, Aled Jones, Andrew John, Hugh Edwards, John Lewis, Philip Sayce, Kay Swinburne, Dafydd Jones, Andy Evans, Stuart Jones, Claire Evans, Pagan Wanderer Lu, The Hot Puppies, Sarah Fleming, Elystan Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan, Ian Parrott, John Chris Jones, Alun D Pughe, Joseph Parry, Eifion Jones, Dafydd Ifans, Mike Jenkins, Aneirin Hughes, Malcolm Pryce, Ifor Leslie Evans, David Charles Davies, Thomas McKenny Hughes, John Ainsworth-Davies, Ifan Evans, Paul Henry, Guy Whatley, David John de Lloyd, Isaac Williams, Laura Jones, Meg Elis, Hugh David, Edward Edwards. Excerpt: Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 - 25 June 1958) was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ." Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Aberystwyth, Wales, where his father taught Latin and Greek. The Welsh coast and mountains were an early inspiration to Noyes. In 1898, he left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because, on a crucial day of his finals in 1902, he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume of poems, The Loom of Years (1902). From 1903 to 1913, Noyes published five additional volumes of poetry, among them The Flower of Old Japan (1903) and Poems (1904), which included one of his most popular poems, "The Barrel-Organ." His most famous poem, "The Highwayman," was first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, and included the following year in Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems. In a nationwide poll conducted by...
