About Henry Alford
Henry Alford was an English poet, scholar, and writer. Alford was a talented artist, as his picture-book, The Riviera (1870), shows, and he had abundant musical and mechanical talent. Besides editing the works of John Donne, he published several volumes of his own verse, The School of the Heart (1835), The Abbot of Muchelnaye (1841), The Greek Testament. The Four Gospels (1849), and a number of hymns, the best-known of which are Forward! be our watchword, Come, ye thankful people, come, and Ten thousand times ten thousand. He translated the Odyssey, wrote a well-known manual of idiom, A Plea for the Queen's English (1863), and was the first editor of the Contemporary Review (1866–1870).Browse all poems and texts published on Henry Alford
