Robert Bridges Summary

Biography EssayOne of the dominant figures of late-Victorian and early-twentieth-century British poetry, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930, Robert Bridges became best known in his day and is ... Read more

Robert Seymour Bridges is known primarily as a lyric poet and as the author of the long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty (1929). His major concern, poetry, dominates his essays, thirty of wh... Read more

In the following review of the Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, the poet's verse is positively described as “slow-moving” and underscored with a “dreamy languor.” ... Read more

In the following essay, Stanford suggests that while Bridges was actively interested in the free verse movement of much younger poets such as Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound, the older poet nevertheless hel... Read more

In the following review of The Testament of Beauty, Porter asserts that the poem reflects Bridges's belief that humanity and nature are “interdependent” and that they are “... Read more

In the following excerpt, Williams praises Bridges's lyric poetry, asserting that it succeeds in communicating both the ideals and physical existence of such abstractions as beauty and joy. ... Read more

In the following essay, De Selincourt describes the central theme in Bridges's poetry as the beauty of nature and compares Bridges's treatment of this theme with that of other poets such... Read more

In the following excerpt, Weygandt describes Bridges as a talented but nevertheless minor poet whose works can best be understood and appreciated after four or more readings. There has never been a... Read more