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BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844– )

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BRIDGES, See also:ROBERT (1844– ) , See also:English poet, See also:born on the 23rd of See also:October 1844, was educated at See also:Eton and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, and studied See also:medicine in See also:London at St See also:Bartholomew's See also:hospital. He was afterwards assistant physician at the See also:Children's hospital, See also:Great See also:Ormond See also:Street, and physician at the Great See also:Northern hospital, retiring in 1882. Two years later he married See also:Mary, daughter of See also:Alfred See also:Waterhouse, R.A. As a poet Robert Bridges stands rather apart from the current of See also:modern English See also:verse, but his See also:work has had great See also:influence in a select circle, by its See also:restraint, purity, precision, and delicacy yet strength of expression; and it embodies a distinct theory of See also:prosody. His See also:chief See also:critical See also:works are See also:Milton's Prosody (1893), a See also:volume made up of two earlier essays (1887 and 1889), and See also:John See also:Keats, a Critical See also:Essay (1895). He maintained that English prosody depended on the number of " stresses" in a See also:line, not on the number of syllables, and that See also:poetry should follow the rules of natural speech. His, poetry was privately printed in the first instance, and was slow in making its way beyond a comparatively small circle of his admirers. His best work is to be found in his Shorter Poems (189o), and a See also:complete edition of his Poetical Works (6 vols.) was published in 1898-1905. His chief volumes are See also:Prometheus (Oxford, 1883, privately printed), a " See also:mask in the See also:Greek Manner "; See also:Eros and See also:Psyche (1885), a version of See also:Apuleius; The Growth of Love, a See also:series of sixty-nine sonnets printed for private circulation in 1876 and 1889; Shorter Poems (189o); See also:Nero (1885), a See also:historical tragedy, the second See also:part of which appeared in 1894; See also:Achilles in See also:Scyros (189o), a See also:drama; Palicio (189o), a romantic drama in the Elizabethan manner; The Return of Ulysses (189o), a drama in,five acts; The See also:Christian Captives (189o), a tragedy on the same subject as See also:Calderon's El Principe Constante; The Humours of the See also:Court (1893), a See also:comedy founded on the same dramatist's El secreto 4 votes and on Lope de See also:Vega's El Perro del hortelano; The Feast of Bacchus (1889), partly translated from the Heauton-Timoroumenos of See also:Terence; See also:Hymns from the Yattendon Hymnal (Oxford, 1899); and See also:Demeter, a Mask (Oxford, 1905).

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