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Robert Bridges: A Biography

Robert Bridges: A Biography

by Catherine Phillips (Author)

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    Hardcover 1992

    $32.01
Synopsis

Robert Bridges is best known today for having been the editor and champion of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins and until now little interest has been paid to his own life and work. This biography seeks to redress the balance by focusing on Bridges' long and full life, and on his achievements as a poet and literary commentator. Born in 1844, Bridges lived through the social and cultural upheavals of World War I and its aftermath. He first trained and practised as a doctor before publishing volumes of verse and influential critical essays, culminating in 1929 with publication of The Testament of Beauty , a hugely successful book-length poem. He experimented with verse forms and was greatly interested in orthography and etymology, co-founding the Society for Pure English in 1913, the same year in which he was appointed Poet Laureate. His friendships and correspondence with figures such as Roger Fry, W.B. Yeats, George Santayana, and Hopkins throw new perspectives on their characters, and on Bridges' own fascination with developments in science, philosophy, psychology, music and literature. Drawing on previously unpublished material and family archives, Catherine Phillips reveals a far more complex and troubled man than has been thought and paints in addition a portrait of an age in transition.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 377
 Edition: First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket.
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 06 Aug 1992
ISBN 10: 0192122517
ISBN 13: 9780192122513

Media Reviews
With the appearance of this work, we can no longer think of Bridges merely as the introducer-editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry. Rather, we can appreciate him for his own achievements as poet, Poet Laureate, physician, critic, essayist, prosodist, hymnodist, editor, and letter writer....A
long-overdue and appropriate biography. --Choice
Interesting and thorough biography. --Albion
Well presented...A readable and informative work. --Nineteenth Century Literature
Phillips leaves us with the firm impression of a man of lively intelligence and deep feeling who faced the crisis of modernity yet also subjected modernity to the critique of the classical-Christian tradition that he inherited and modified yet whose essential principles he never
abandoned. --Current books in Review
She offers welcome detail about Bridge's family, friendships, reading and publications; makes no excessive claims for his poetry, though appreciating its strengths; and illustrates his quirkness and self-involvement without diminishing his admirable personal qualities. --English Literature in
Transition


With the appearance of this work, we can no longer think of Bridges merely as the introducer-editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry. Rather, we can appreciate him for his own achievements as poet, Poet Laureate, physician, critic, essayist, prosodist, hymnodist, editor, and letter writer....A
long-overdue and appropriate biography. --Choice
Interesting and thorough biography. --Albion
Well presented...A readable and informative work. --Nineteenth Century Literature
Phillips leaves us with the firm impression of a man of lively intelligence and deep feeling who faced the crisis of modernity yet also subjected modernity to the critique of the classical-Christian tradition that he inherited and modified yet whose essential principles he never
abandoned. --Current books in Review
She offers welcome detail about Bridge's family, friendships, reading and publications; makes no excessive claims for his poetry, though appreciating its strengths; and illustrates his quirkness and self-involvement without diminishing his admirable personal qualities. --English Literature in
Transition

With the appearance of this work, we can no longer think of Bridges merely as the introducer-editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry. Rather, we can appreciate him for his own achievements as poet, Poet Laureate, physician, critic, essayist, prosodist, hymnodist, editor, and letter writer....A long-overdue and appropriate biography. --Choice
Interesting and thorough biography. --Albion
Well presented...A readable and informative work. --Nineteenth Century Literature
Phillips leaves us with the firm impression of a man of lively intelligence and deep feeling who faced the crisis of modernity yet also subjected modernity to the critique of the classical-Christian tradition that he inherited and modified yet whose essential principles he never abandoned. --Current books in Review
She offers welcome detail about Bridge's family, friendships, reading and publications; makes no excessive claims for his poetry, though appreciating its strengths; and illustrates his quirkness and self-involvement without diminishing his admirable personal qualities. --English Literature in Transition


With the appearance of this work, we can no longer think of Bridges merely as the introducer-editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry. Rather, we can appreciate him for his own achievements as poet, Poet Laureate, physician, critic, essayist, prosodist, hymnodist, editor, and letter writer....A long-overdue and appropriate biography. --Choice


Interesting and thorough biography. --Albion


Well presented...A readable and informative work. --Nineteenth Century Literature


Phillips leaves us with the firm impression of a man of lively intelligence and deep feeling who faced the crisis of modernity yet also subjected modernity to the critique of the classical-Christian tradition that he inherited and modified yet whose essential principles he never abandoned. --Current books in Review


She offers welcome detail about Bridge's family, friendships, reading and publications; makes no excessive claims for his poetry, though appreciating its strengths; and illustrates his quirkness and self-involvement without diminishing his admirable personal qualities. --English Literature in Transition