Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bridges’ life and works
* Concise introduction to Bridges’ life and poetry
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Rare late poems never digitised before
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes the complete verse dramas
* A selection of prose works, including Bridges’ seminal work on his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, ‘The Testament of Beauty’ cannot appear in this eBook until 2025, when it will be added as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Life and Poetry of Robert Bridges
Brief Introduction: Robert Bridges
The Growth of Love (1876)
Prometheus the Firegiver (1883)
Eros and Psyche (1885)
Shorter Poems (1890-1894)
New Poems (1899)
Demeter: A Mask (1905)
Later Poems (1912)
Poems in Classical Prosody (1912)
October and Other Poems (1920)
New Verse (1926)
The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
The Verse Dramas
Nero (1885)
The Feast of Bacchus (1889)
Achilles in Scyros (1890)
Palicio (1890)
The Return of Ulysses (1890)
The Christian Captives (1890)
The Humours of the Court (1893)
The Second Part of the History of Nero (1894)
The Prose
A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing (1899)
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)
English Homophones (1919)
On the Dialectal Words in Edmund Blunden’s Poems (1921)
