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Also known as Robert Seymour Bridges, Robert S. Bridges

British writer (1844-1930)

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Top works

  • Poems Of Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • The Feast of Bacchus
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  • Collected Essay, Papers &c. of Robert Bridges

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Person
Country
US
Active from
1977-09-11

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Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, intending to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. He practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital (where he made a series <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Bridg

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Quotes

  • Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hidA million buds but stay their blossomingAnd trustful birds have built their nests amidThe shuddering boughs, and only wait to singTill one soft shower from the south shall bidAnd hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.
  • For beauty being the best of all we knowSums up the unsearchable and secret aimsOf nature.
  • When men were all asleep the snow came flying,In large white flakes falling on the city brown,Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.
  • They gathered up the crystal manna to freezeTheir tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.
  • Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!
  • I love all beauteous things,I seek and adore them.

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name in native language
Robert Bridges
date of death
1930-04-21
date of birth
1844-01-01
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8 objects attributed to Robert Bridges, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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