Robert Bridges

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Standard Name: Bridges, Robert

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Daryush
Robert Bridges , Poet Laureate and father of ED , died at his home, Chilswell just south of Oxford, on 21 April 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Robert Seymour Bridges
Education Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH attended Highgate School as a boarder, winning a poetry prize, but was in constant trouble over various acts of rebellion against authority. The headmaster several times threatened to expel him. He gained, however, two...
Cultural formation Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH entered the noviciate of the Jesuits , as a step towards joining the Order; at this time he symbolically burned many of his poems—but he first sent some copies to Robert Bridges .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.

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