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Robert Bridges
1844–1930
A poet who came to literary fame later in life, he combined classical polish with a deep love of language and sound. Best remembered as Britain’s Poet Laureate and as the champion who helped bring Gerard Manley Hopkins to a wider audience, he wrote verse that is graceful, reflective, and often musical.
12 Audiobooks
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 1
by Robert Bridges
A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing
by Robert Bridges
October, and Other Poems; with Occasional Verses on the War
by Robert Bridges
The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas
by Robert Bridges
On English Homophones Society for Pure English, Tract 02
by Robert Bridges
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5
by Robert Bridges
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2
by Robert Bridges
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3
by Robert Bridges
Purcell Ode, and Other Poems
by Robert Bridges
Poems
by Robert Bridges
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 6
by Robert Bridges
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 4
by Robert Bridges
About the author
Born in Walmer, Kent, on October 23, 1844, he was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After Oxford he trained in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and worked as a physician in London hospitals before leaving medicine because of ill health and turning more fully to writing.
His poetry is known for its careful craftsmanship, clear musical patterns, and interest in form. In 1913 he became Poet Laureate, a post he held until his death in 1930. Among his best-known later works is The Testament of Beauty, published when he was in his eighties.
He also played an important part in literary history through his friendship with Gerard Manley Hopkins. As Hopkins’s literary executor, he helped preserve and publish Hopkins’s poems after his death, introducing many readers to a writer who would become one of the major poets of the age. Robert Bridges died on April 21, 1930, at Boars Hill near Oxford.