Author:Robert Seymour Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges
(1844–1930)

Robert Seymour Bridges

Works

• "Wooldridge, Harry Ellis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)

Poetry collections

• The Growth of Love (1876;1889)
• Prometheus the Firegiver: A Mask in the Greek Manner (1884)
• Nero (1885)
• Eros and Psyche: A Narrative Poem in Twelve Measures (1885;1894). A story from the Latin of Apuleius.
• Return of Ulysses (1890)
• Shorter Poems, Books I - IV (1890)
• Shorter Poems, Books I - V (1894)
• Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter
• The Necessity of Poetry (1918)
• October and other poems, with occasional verses on the war (1920) (external scan)
• New Verse (1925)
• The Tapestry: Poems (1925)
• The Testament of Beauty (1929;1930)

Poems

• Come, O Creator Spirit, come (1899)
• "'Wake up, England' " and "Hymn in War Time" from Poems of the Great War (1914)
• From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "To the United States of America" p. 88.
  • "The Chivalry of the Sea" p. 322.
  • "Trafalgar Square" p. 353.
  • "Lord Kitchener" p. 384.

Criticism and essays

• Milton's Prosody, With a Chapter on Accentual Verse (1893).
• Keats (1895)
• The Spirit of Man (1916)
• Collected Essays, Papers, Etc. (1927-36)

Works about Bridges

• "Bridges, Robert Seymour," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Bridges, Robert (English poet)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Bridges, Robert," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Bridges, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bridges, Robert," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Bridges, Robert," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)