Robert Seymour Bridges was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges’ efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame. This ebook include poetical works of Robert Bridges.
Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930, is an important cultural link between the Victorian Age and the modern period. This bibliography updates and expands George McKay's A Bibliography of Robert Bridges (1933) and is the first gathering of reviews, articles, essays, books, and other scholarly notes about Bridges.
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges is a collection of poetry by Robert Bridges, an influential English poet. The collection showcases his poetic craftsmanship and explores various themes, ranging from nature and love to spirituality and mortality. Key Points: Poetic craftsmanship and lyrical beauty: Robert Bridges is celebrated for his mastery of poetic form and language. His works exhibit meticulous attention to meter, rhyme, and imagery, creating evocative and melodious verses that capture the reader's imagination. Themes of nature, love, and spirituality: Bridges' poetry delves into the beauty of the natural world, often drawing inspiration from landscapes, seasons, and changing elements. He also explores the complexities of love, human relationships, and the spiritual dimensions of existence, infusing his poems with deep emotional resonance and philosophical contemplation. Influence on modernist poetry: While Bridges' poetry reflects traditional poetic forms and themes, his works were also influential in the transition to modernist poetry. His experiments with language and rhythm foreshadowed the innovative techniques embraced by later poets, making his collection a significant contribution to the evolution of English poetry.
"Then Hêra, when she heard what Earth had given, Smiled for her joy, and longed and came to see: On dove wings flying from the height of heaven, Down to the golden tree: As tired birds at even Come flying straight to house On their accustomed boughs. 'Twas where, on tortured hands, Bearing the mighty pole. Devoted Atlas stands: And round his bowed head roll, Day-light and night, and stars unmingled dance, Nor can he raise his glance..." 'The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas' is a collection of poems inspired by the tales of Greek mythology. It includes such well-known characters such as Demeter, Eros and Psyche, and Prometheus, among others.
This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and intricacy of the alcaic stanza (Tennyson called it 'the grandest of all measures') and their inventive responses to the ancient alcaic have generated remarkable innovations in the rhythms, sounds and shapes of modern poetry. This is the first book-length study of this neglected strand of English literary history and classical reception. Attending closely to the rhythm and texture of their verses, John Talbot reveals surprising connections between English poets across five centuries, among them Mary Shelley, Milton, Marvell, Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden and Donald Hall. He gives special attention to a flourishing of English alcaics during the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and what it suggests about the changing place of classics and poetic form in contemporary culture.
Much of the poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1939 and the time of his death consists of syllabic verse, or lines arranged in accordance with a predetermined syllable-count but no fixed number or distribution of stresses. This book presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of his many and widely varied syllabics, grouping them primarily by the formal sub-categories to which they belong (as measured by line-length, stanza-type, or some other aspect of their overall design). With this approach the book clarifies the dynamic range and technical inventiveness of Auden’s syllabics. It also shows how his work of compares with that of Robert Bridges and Marianne Moore, two pioneers in the writing of English syllabic whose verse he was familiar with.
