Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Robert Bridges
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Standard Name: Bridges, Robert
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Daryush | ED
's father, Robert Bridges
, had a career as a physician before, once a family inheritance gave him an unearned income, giving up medicine for the practice of poetry. He was appointed Poet Laureate... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | She was a close friend of other poets as well: Robert Bridges
and Richard Watson Dixon
. Her increasing literary success, by bringing her into contact with new and interesting people, eventually induced her to... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Frances's association with Rupert Brooke
began with the rehearsals for the play and grew into friendship. They discussed their poetry with each other, and Frances counselled and consoled Rupert in his many love affairs. She... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | The stigma resulting from this second divorce followed RMW
for many years, though in 1895 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(who included her in A Victorian Anthology) dismissed the scandal in a letter to Robert Bridges |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Daryush | ED
's Times obituary called her a self-possessed traditionalist, unimpressed by the twentieth century, with a clear mind, an agile and introspective wit, and nobility of rhythm,but with no gift for metaphor and other... |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire
was not entirely welcome to VSW
, since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. qtd. in Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 167 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Daryush | Yvor Winters
ascribed this productivity to her father
's death on 21 April 1930. Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996. 55 |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Daryush | A masque entitled Demeter by Robert Bridges
was performed in the college gardens by students of Somerville, Oxford
, to celebrate the opening of their new library; it included verses by his daughter Elizabeth
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Author summary | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
was one of those in the running for the position of Poet Laureate in succession to Robert Bridges
in summer1929. She later secretly hoped to succeed Bridges' successor, John Masefield
, and wrote a... |
Residence | Elizabeth Daryush | With the inheritance left to the Bridges family by Alfred Waterhouse
, grandfather of Elizabeth Bridges (later ED
), her father
had a family home built for them: Chilswell on Boars Hill, overlooking Oxford... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | Robert Bridges
organized the printing of the poems after one of MEC
's friends (a relation of his) slyly arranged for him to read one of her notebooks, Verses by Verspertilio. In a letter... |
Timeline
1899: Oxford University Press printed the Yattendon...
Writing climate item
1899
Oxford University Press
printed the Yattendon Hymnal, edited by Robert Bridges
and H. Ellis Wooldridge
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
166
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
134
1925: Arrighi type was used for the first time...
Writing climate item
1925
Arrighi type was used for the first time in Robert Bridges
' Tapestry, privately printed by F. W.
and S. M. (Frederick Warde
and Stanley Morison
).
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
137
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
177
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Texts
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Introduction to the Third Edition”. Poems, edited by W. H. Gardner et al., Oxford University Press, 1956, p. xiii - xxvi.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Editor Bridges, Robert, Humphrey Milford, 1918.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth, and Richard Watson Dixon. “Preface”. The Last Poems of Richard Watson Dixon, edited by Robert Bridges and Robert Bridges, H. Frowde, 1905, p. iii - xv.