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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush
1887–1977
A thoughtful English poet who blended formal craft with sharp social feeling, she wrote verse that could be graceful, exact, and quietly unsettling at the same time.
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Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses
by Elizabeth Bridges Daryush, active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ
About the author
Elizabeth Bridges Daryush was an English poet born in 1887, the daughter of Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. Some of her early work appeared under the name Elizabeth Bridges, and after her marriage to Ali Akbar Daryush in 1923 she became known as Elizabeth Daryush.
She is remembered for combining traditional discipline with experiment, especially in her work with syllabic verse. Reference sources on her life and work also note that her poems often turned a critical eye on privilege and social injustice, giving her writing a firmness beneath its polished surface.
Her collected poems were published late in her life, in 1976, and she died in 1977. A suitable verified portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources retrieved here, so no profile image is included.