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Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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Ibant obscuri: an experiment in the classical hexameter. Oxford
1916.
reviews: Nation 105 1917; TLS 8 Mar 1917.
Lord Kitchener. 1916 (priv ptd).
The necessity of poetry. Oxford 1918. Pam.
Britannia victrix. Oxford 1918; rptd in The Times 25 Nov 1918; rptd
1919 and in New verse, 1925, below.
October and other poems with occasional verses on the war. 1920,
rptd 1922, 1929.
reviews: Bickley, F., Bookman (London) 58 1920; M[urray], J. M.,
Athenaeum 9 Apr 1920; Gorman, H., New York Times 29 Aug
1920.
Dedication speech made at the unveiling of a war memorial at the
Newbury Grammar School on 12 July 1921. A broadsheet.
Poor poll. 1923 (priv ptd); rptd in New verse, 1925, below.
The tapestry. 1925 (priv ptd). Rptd in part from October and other
poems, 1920, above, and rptd in part in New verse, 1925, below.
New verse written in 1921 with the other poems of that year and a
few earlier pieces. Oxford 1925, 1926 (rev).
reviews: Shanks, E., Saturday Rev 140 1925; TLS 17 Dec 1925.
The influence of the audience. New York 1926 (priv ptd). Rptd from
Works of William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon 1907; rptd in
Collected essays, papers etc, 1927.
Henry Bradley: a memoir. Oxford 1926; rptd in Collected papers of
H. Bradley, Oxford 1928, and in Three friends, 1932.
The testament of beauty: a poem in four books. 5 pts [1927–9] (priv
ptd), 1 vol Oxford 1929 (limited issue); Oxford 1929 (standard
issue); New York 1929, 1st American issue; Oxford 1930 (corrected
reprint); the poem went through 9 impressions from 1929–30.
Rptd 1934, 1938, 1940 and 1944.
reviews: Bridges issues a poem on his 85th birthday, New York
Times 24 Oct 1929; C[lerke], A. M., Oxford Mag 48 1929–30;
Church, R., Bookman (London) 77 1929; Henderson, W. B. D., Yale
Rev 19 1929–30; New Statesman 34 1929; Porter, A., Spectator 143
1929; Read, H., Review of The testament of beauty, and Poetical
works of Robert Bridges, 6 vols, Nation and Athenaeum 46 1929;
Saturday Rev of Lit 6 1929; TLS 24 Oct 1929; Twitchett, E. G.,
London Mercury Dec 1929; Welby, T. E., Saturday Rev 148 1929;
Wood, H. G., Central Lit Mag 29 1929–30; de Selincourt, E.,
Hibbert Jnl 28 1930 and in Oxford lectures on poetry, Oxford
1934; Magnus, L., Cornhill Mag May 1930, rptd Trans Royal Soc
Lit 10 1931.
Poetry: the first of the broadcast national lectures. Cambridge 1929.
On receiving trivia from the author. Stanford Dingley, Berks 1930
(priv ptd).
The shorter poems of Robert Bridges. Oxford 1931; rptd 1946,
Westport CT 1979.
reviews: Scovell, E. J., New Statesman and Nation 2 1931; TLS 25
June 1931; Walton, E. L., New York Times 23 Aug 1931; Winters, Y.
Hound and Horn 5 1931–2; Z[abel], M. D., Poetry 39 1931–2.
Verses written for Mrs Daniel. Oxford 1932 (introd by G. S. Gordon).
review: TLS 4 Aug 1932.
Three friends: memoirs of Digby Mackworth Dolben, Richard
Watson Dixon, Henry Bradley. Oxford 1932, 1938.
review: TLS 17 Nov 1932.
On hearing of the death of Theodore Watts-Dunton. Winchester
1940.
Four collects. Stanford Dingley, Berks 1947.
Contributions to periodicals
Bridges’s periodical contributions are extensive. For a full list of his contributions
to periodicals, Soc for Pure English tracts etc, see McKay, and Hamilton,
under Bibliographies, above.
A holy war. The Times 3 Sep 1914.
Waste in hotels. The Times 9 Sep 1914.
Mr Bridges on football. The Times 19 Nov 1914.
Fight for right. TLS 6 Apr 1916.
Treatment of prisoners. The Times 19 July 1916.
Perse School, Cambridge. Times Education Suppl 7 Dec 1916.
The freedom of the seas. The Times 7 Feb 1917.
20,000,000,000! The Times 8 Feb 1917.
Books for hospitals. The Times 23 May 1918.
Our prisoners of war in Germany. The Times 4 Nov 1918.
Reconciliation: Oxford letter to German intellectuals. The Times 18
Oct 1920.
The poet laureate on reconciliation. The Times 27 Oct 1920.
Poems unpublished or difficult to obtain. Ed W. M. Whitehill,
Boston 1924.
To the donors of the clavichord. [Oxford 1924 (priv ptd)], rptd The
Times 11 Nov 1924.
Mr Bridges’s thanks. The Times 11 Nov 1924.
Broadcast English. The Times 6 Jan 1928.
An aerodome near Oxford. The Times 5 Nov 1929.
A national theatre. The Times 26 Nov 1929.
Letters and papers
Collected essays, papers etc. 30 pts Oxford 1927–36. Pt 1, 1927:
Influence of audience on Shakespeare’s drama; 2–3, 1928:
Humdrum and harum-scarum, poetic diction; 4, 1929: Critical
introduction to Keats; 5, 1930: George Darley; 6–7, 1931: Poems of
Mary Coleridge, Lord de Tabley’s poems; 8–10, 1932: Dantë in
English literature, Poems of Emily Brontë, Dryden on Milton;
11–15, 1933: Studies in poetry, Springs of Helicon, Wordsworth
and Kipling, Wordbooks, Letter on English prosody; 16–20, 1934:
The Bible, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress, Sir Thomas Browne,
George Santayana, The glamour of grammar; 21–6, 1935: The
musical setting of poetry, Some principles of hymn-singing,
About hymns, English chanting, Chanting, Psalms noted in
speech rhythm; 27–30, 1936: An address to the Swindon WEA,
The necessity of poetry, Poetry, An account of the casualty department.
Pts 5–30 ed M. M. Bridges.
The message of one of England’s greatest poets to a printer. Ed G. W.
Jones [1931].
Smith, L. P. Robert Bridges: recollections. Society for Pure English
35 1931. 3 letters.
Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein. 3 vols
New York 1932–9. 12 letters.
The pursuit of poetry: a book of letters about poetry written by
English poets, 1550–1930. Ed D. Flower, London 1939. 1 letter.
Correspondence of Bridges and Henry Bradley 1900–23. Oxford
1940.
Patmore, D. Coventry Patmore and Robert Bridges: some letters.
Fortnightly Rev 169 1948.
Patmore, D. Three poets discuss new verse forms. Month n.s. 6 1951.
3 letters.
XXI letters: a correspondence between Robert Bridges and R. C.
Trevelyan on new verse and The testament of beauty. Stanford
Dingley, Berks 1955, rptd 1957, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976.
Green, D. B. A new letter of Bridges to Coventry Patmore. MP 55 1958.
Stanford, D. E. Robert Bridges and Samuel Butler on Shakespeare’s
sonnets: an exchange of letters. SQ 22 1971.
Stanford, D. E. Robert Bridges on his poems and plays: unpublished
letters by Robert Bridges to Samuel Butler. PQ 50 1971.
The correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats. Ed R. J.
Finneran 1977.
The selected letters of Robert Bridges. Ed D. E. Stanford 2 vols
Newark NJ 1983.
Editions, prefaces and introductions
Bridges edited Hymns in four parts, vol 1, Oxford 1895; Hymns in four
parts, vol 2, Oxford 1897; Hymns in four parts, Oxford 1897 (combines vols
1 and 2); Hymns in four parts, vol 3. Oxford 1898; Hymns in four parts,
vol 4, Oxford 1899; Hymns in four parts, Oxford 1899 (4 previous vols com-