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Robert Bridges
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Standard Name: Bridges, Robert
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | In 1905 MEC
provided the preface to The Last Poems of Richard Watson Dixon, edited by Robert Bridges
. Dixon was an obscure, religious, even visionary poet. She was a keen supporter of his... |
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... |
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... |
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
. |
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 |
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. 55 |
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... |
Cultural formation | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Textual Production | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Almost thirty years after Hopkins's death, Robert Bridges
, Poet Laureate, first edited and secured publication of most of his surviving work: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. White, Norman. Hopkins: A Literary Biography. Clarendon Press. xvi |
Author summary | 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... |
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. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 167 |
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
.
1925: Arrighi type was used for the first time...
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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
).
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.