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Robert Bridges

其他書名	A Biography
出版	Oxford University Press, 1992
主題	Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN	01921225179780192122513
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kUlaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Robert Bridges is best known today for having been the editor and champion of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins, and comparatively little attention has been paid to his own life and work. In this, the first full-length biography of Bridges, Catherine Phillips 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 the First World War and its aftermath. Having trained and practised as a doctor, he published influential critical essays and several volumes of verse culminating in 1929 with publication of The Testament of Beauty, a hugely successful book-length poem. He experimented with verse forms and was interested in orthography and etymology, co-founding the Society for Pure English in 1913, the same year in which he was appointed Poet Laureate. Bridges' fascination with developments in science, philosophy, psychology, music and literature led to friendships with figures such as Roger Fry, W. B. Yeats, George Santayana, and Hopkins. Bridges' perspective throws new light on their characters and attitudes. Drawing on previously unpublished material and family archives, Catherine Phillips reveals a far more complex and troubled man than has been thought, and paints in addition a portrait of an age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.