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Robert Seymour Bridges

Male : Poet Laureate from 1913. Playwright & Critic. Married Monica Waterhouse in 1884
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Walmer, Kent

Date of Birth : 1844 Date of Death : 1930 Age : 86

Other Work : Doctor. (St Bart's)

Education : Eton & Corpus Christi College, Oxford. St Bartholomew's, London (Medicine)
1873-1880
Poems
(1873 Basil Montagu Pickering, London)
Offered in 1999 for £300
Carmen Elegaicum
(1876)
The Growth of Love
(1876 Bumpus)
Poems : Second Series
(1879 Edward Bumpus, London)
Poems : Third Series
(1880)

1881-1890
Prometheus the Firegiver
(1883 PP H Daniel, Oxford) - Play
Prometheus the Firegiver
(1884 G Bell)
Poems
(1884 Daniel Press, Oxford) - 150
Odes and Eclogues
(1884 Daniel Press)
Eros & Psyche : A Poem in 12 Measures
(1885 Bell)
Nero
(1885-94) - 2 vols. Play
Lyrical Poems
(1887 Daniel Press)
The Feast of Bacchus
(1889 H Daniel, Oxford) - 105. Play
The Growth of Love
(1889 Daniel Press, Oxford)
Shorter Poems
(1890 Bell, London) - 2 vols. 110
Palicio
(1890) - Play
The Return of Ulysses
(1890) - Play
The Christian Captive
(1890) - Play
Achilles in Scyros
(1890) - Play

1891-1900
Eden, An Oratorio
(1891 Bell & Sons) - 110 numbered
The Humours of the Court : A Comedy & Other Poems
(1893 Bell) - 110 on Handmade Paper
Milton's Prosody
(1893)
John Keats : A Critical Essay
(1895 PP in London) - 250
(Ed) Yattendon Hymnal (1895-99) - 7 vols
Ode for the Bicentenary Commemoration of Henry Purcell, with Other Poems
(1896 Elkin Mathews Shilling Garland) - 1000
(Ed) Songs and Odes (1896)
Poetical Works
(1898-1905) - 6 vols
Hymns
(1899 Daniel Press) - Ltd Ed 150
(Ed) The Small Hymn Book (1899)

1901-1915
A Practical Discourse on Hymn-Singing
(1901)
Now in Wintry Delights
(1903 Daniel Press, Oxford) - Ltd Ed 300
Peace : Ode written upon the Conclusion of the Three Years' War
(1903 Daniel) - Ltd Ed 100
Demeter : A Mask
(1905 Clarendon Press)
(Ed) Last Poems of R W Dixon (1905)
(Ed) Poems : A Selection by R W Dixon (1909)
(Ed) The Poems of D M Dolben (1911)
The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Bridges
(1912 Henry Frowde, OUP)
(Ed & In) Tracts for the Society of Pure English (1913-29) - 31 vols
Poems Written in the Year MCMXIII
(1914 Ashendene Press, London) - Ltd Ed 91

1916-1920
(Ed) The Spirit of Man - An Anthology in English & French (1916 Longmans, Green)
Ibant Oscuri, an Experiment in Classical Hexameter
(1916 Clarendon Press)
Lord Kitchener
(1916 PP by Clement Shorter, London) - only 20
An Address to the Swindon Branch of the Worker's Educational Assoc
(1916 Clarendon Press)
Britannia Victrix : A Poem
(1918 OUP) - 350. 4 pp
(Ed) The Poems of Gerard Manly Hopkins (1918)
October & Other Poems
(1920 Heinemann)

After 1921
(Ed) The Chilswell Book of English Poetry (1924)
New Verse: Written in 1921
(1925 Clarendon Press) - 100 signed
The Tapestry Poems
(1925 PP in London) - 150
Offered in 1999 for £605
Henry Bradley : A Memoir
(1926)
Collected Essays, Papers, etc
(1927-36 OUP) - 30 vols. edited by M M Bridges
(Ed) Selections from the Letters of Walter Raleigh (1928)
(Ed) The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley (1928)
A Critical Introduction to Keats
(1929 OUP)
The Testament of Beauty : A Poem in Four Books
(1929 Clarendon Press) - 250 (1930 OUP, NY)
Poetry : The First of the Broadcast National Lectures
(1929 BBC)
Verses Written for Mrs Daniel
(1932)
Three Friends : Memoirs of D M Dolben, R W Dixon & Henry Bradley
(1932) - Edited by M M Bridges
On Receiving Trivia from the Author
(1932)
Eros & Psyche : A Poem in XII Measures
(1935 Gregynog Press, Newtown) - 285
- Lloyd Haberly & John Beedham
Offered at £750 in 1998
Correspondence of Bridges and Henry Bradley 1900-23
(1940)
Four Collects
(1947)
XXI Letters : Correspondence between Bridges and C R Trevelyan
(1955)
Popetry and Prose
(1955) - Edited by John Sparrow
Selected Poems
(1974) - Edited by D E Stanford
The Correspondence of Bridges and W B Yeats
(1977) - Edited by Richard Finneran
Ten Poems : An English Calendar
(1992 Simon King)

READING
George L McKay : A Bibliography of Robert Bridges
(1933) (1964 Dawsons Pall Mall, London)
Albert Guerard : Robert Bridges - A Study in Traditionalism in Poetry
(1942)
Edward J Thompson : Robert Bridges
(1944)
J G Ritz : Bridges and Hopkins 1863-89 - A Literary Friendship
(1960)
John Sparrow : Robert Bridges
(1962)
Catherine Phillips : Robert Bridges - A Biography
(1992 OUP)

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