SOURCE: “The Traditionalist Poet,” in his In the Classic Mode: The Achievement of Robert Bridges, Associated University Presses, 1978, pp. 19-79.
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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