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Robert Bridges Quotes
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Robert Seymour Bridges , OM , ( October 23 , 1844 – April 21 , 1930 ) was an English poet. He was poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Shorter Poems (1879-1893) 1.2 The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930) 2 Misattributed 3 External...


Biography

Name: Robert Bridges
Birth Date: 23 October 1844
Death Date: 21 April 1930

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Biography of Robert Bridges
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One 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 known in ours as a master of lyric verse and as author of the...
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Biography of Robert (Seymour) Bridges
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One 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 known in ours as a master of lyric verse and as author of the...
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Biography of Robert (Seymour) Bridges
5,876 words, approx. 20 pages
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 which he began editing in 1927, according to his own...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Robert Bridges Information
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Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from...


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Human Events
The Robert C. Byrd bridge to poverty
02/18/2002: 839 words, approx. 3 pages
Across America The poor's sense of class superiority over the rich is getting out of hand. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing last week, Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, who was named after a bridge in West Virginia, viciously attacked Treasury Secretary Paul...
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New Criterion
Robert Bridges's new cadence.
04/01/2007: 2,979 words, approx. 10 pages
Robert Bridges (1844-1930) is perhaps the most conspicuous example of that faintly alarming figure, the happy poet. His strenuously archaic diction, his eccentric devotion to syllabic and quantitative measures, his bizarre attempts to simplify English spelling, as well as his unvaryingly placid manner, all...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by E. De Selincourt
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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 as Keats, Browning, and Swinburne.
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Critical Essay by Donald E. Stanford
7,456 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Stanford examines Bridges's shorter poems, sonnets, and philosophical poems, and concludes that these works display a complexity and attention to poetic craft that is missing in the works of other poets of his era.
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Critical Essay by Donald E. Stanford
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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 held to the traditional belief that the subjects of poems should be weighty matters rather than “trivial” items, such as a wheelbarrow, which interested the younger poets.
 


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