Roden Noel
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (also Noël, born August 27, 1834 in London, † May 26 1894 in Mainz ) was a British poet and essayist.
Life
Noel comes from the English and Irish nobility. He was the fourth son of Charles Noel, Lord Barham (1781-1866), for the 1841 title Earl of Gainsborough was created. His mother was his fourth wife Frances, born Jocelyn, daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden. Through the influence of his mother and her family Roden Noel felt his life as Irish. Although he grew up on the headquarters of Exton Park Rutland family in the English, but also spent some time with his maternal grandfather in Tollymore Park, King's County, in the north of Ireland.
Noel attended 1847-1849, the renowned private school Harrow School in northwest London, was awarded after five years private lessons in Wiltshire and began his studies in 1854 at Trinity College, Cambridge, with the aim to become a clergyman. After graduating with a Master, he decided in 1858, the ecclesiastical career but avoid crashing and took a trip to the Orient. With his friend Horatio F. Brown, he spent a long time in the desert of Libya, where he suffered a severe heat damage. In Beirut, he allowed himself to care for the family of the director of the local Ottoman Bank, de Broë healthy. On March 21, 1863, he married at All Souls Church, Langham Place in London, the eldest daughter Alice Maria Caroline de Broë. With his wife, he moved then in the London Borough of Kew. The couple had three children: Frances (* 1864), Conrad le Despenser Roden (* 1869) and Eric ( * 1871). Noel was probably bisexual; from his homosexual tendencies, he made no secret in any case.
Even Noel 1863 published his first literary work, the collection of poems Behind the Veil, and other Poems. From 1867 he held the office of " Groom of the Privy Chamber" at the court of his godmother, Queen Victoria, left the farm but in 1871 to begin a career as a businessman. This attempt failed, however pathetic, and from then on he devoted himself exclusively to literature and philosophy. Also, as a philanthropist, he was known due to many assistance for the poor, he got even the honorific nickname " The Children's Knight". His political views were progressive liberal to democratic; but socialist ideas were alien to him, especially since he particularly appreciated eccentricity and individuality.
Noel's son Eric died at the age of five years from rheumatic fever. Under the impact of this death he wrote the poetry collection A Little Child's Monument, the processed memories of the Son, and in 1881 underwent three editions.
Noel was acquainted with many famous poets and thinkers of his time; receive correspondences include with the writers Alfred Lord Tennyson ( of Noel's poetry admired), Robert Browning, and Thomas Hardy, but also an exchange of letters with the statesman William Ewart Gladstone.
Noel lived in the last years of his life in Brighton. In 1894, he died on a trip to his sister living in Stuttgart, when he suffered a heart attack during the change in Mainz Central Station. His grave is on the Mainz main cemetery.
His son Conrad Noel was a priest and later became known for his revolutionary settings as "The Turbulent Priest of Thaxted ".
Work
Noel was admired for his enthusiasm, his empathy for the nature that he admired the way to pantheism, and the philosophical tone of his poems. His early works, such as the poetry book Beatrice, and other Poems, are heavily influenced by the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. His seals but were criticized for their sometimes abstruse subject. Also, the overloaded, balanced little, often too brutish or too sweet style and the great extent of his works displeased many contemporaries.
Among many volumes of poetry, he also wrote an ambitious fünfaktiges verse drama The House of Ravensburg, an epic about David Livingstone's expedition in Africa and a biography of Lord Byron. His version of the Faust material from 1888 is an unusual mix of poetry, dramatic dialogue and philosophy in prose. But Noels far most successful work was the rather simple, personal poetry book A Little Child 's Monument.
In addition, Noel was nonetheless a literary and philosophical themes as an essayist. His essays upon Poetry and Poets from 1886 gather essays about Thomas Chatterton, Lord Byron, Percy B. Shelley, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Victor Hugo, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Walt Whitman. Towards the end of his life he held many lectures on literary subjects whose income he donated to charity.
Works
- Behind the Veil, and other Poems, 1863
- Beatrice, and other Poems, 1868
- The Red Flag, and other Poems, 1872
- Livingstone in Africa, 1874
- The House of Ravensburg, 1877
- A Little Child's Monument, 1881
- A Philosophy of immortality, 1882
- Songs of the Heights and Deeps, 1885
- A Modern Faust, and other Poems, 1888
- Life of Lord Byron, 1890
- Poor People's Christmas, 1890
- My Sea, and other Poems, 1896
Editorship:
- Edmund Spenser: Poems, 1887
- Thomas Otway: Plays, 1888
Collections:
- Essays upon Poetry and Poets, 1886
- Poems, ed. by Robert Buchanan, 1893
- Selected poems, ed. by Percy Addleshaw, 1897
- Collected Poems, ed. of Noel's sister Victoria Buxton, 1902