The Robert Bridges Page

( 1844 - 1930 )

Major Works
The Growth of Love ( 1876; 1889 ).
Prometheus the Firegiver: A Mask in the Greek Manner ( 1884 ).
Nero ( 1885 ).
Eros and Psyche: A Narrative Poem in Twelve Measures ( 1885; 1894 ). A story from the Latin of Apuleius.
Return of Ulysses ( 1890 ). Shorter Poems, Books I - IV ( 1890 ).
Milton's Prosody, With a Chapter on Accentual Verse ( 1893 ).
Shorter Poems, Books I - V ( 1894 ).
Keats ( 1895 ).
Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter
The Necessity of Poetry ( 1918 ).
October and Other Poems ( 1920 ).
New Verse ( 1925 ).
The Tapestry: Poems ( 1925 ).
Collected Essays, Papers, Etc. ( 1927 - 36 ).
The Testament of Beauty ( 1929; 1930 ).
Nine poems from 1919 Oxford Book of English Verse On Line
Selected Poems On Line from The Poet's Corner.

About Bridges
Albert J. Guerard, Bridges: A Study of Traditionalism. Harvard, 1942.
Donald E. Stanford, In the Classic Mode: The Achievement of Robert Bridges. Delaware, 1978.
Edward Thompson, Robert Bridges, 1844 - 1930. Oxford, 1944.

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