Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges , born the October 23rd 1844, dead the April 21st 1930, is a Poète English, Poète prize winner starting from 1913 and member of the Order of Merit.

Life

Bridges is born with Walmer, in the Kent, and studies with the college of Eton and the Corpus Christi College of Oxford. It follows studies of medicine to the hospital St Barthelemy of London and starts to practice before the fourteen years age and is withdrawn to write poetry. He becomes then doctor attending the hospital for children Great Ormond Street and doctor in Great Northern hospital, when an lung infection the constrained one to withdraw itself in 1882. Starting from this date, it is devoted to the writing and literary research.

The literary work of Bridges started well before its withdrawal, with its first collection of poems, published in 1873. In 1884, it Marie with Monica Waterhouse, girl of Alfred Waterhouse, and passes the remainder of its life withdrawn to the countryside, initially with Yattendon, in the Berkshire, then with Boar' S Hill, Oxford, where it dies. The poetess Elizabeth Daryush is his/her daughter.

Literary work

Like poet, Bridges occupies a special place in the modern English poetic production, but its work had a great influence in a restricted circle, by its constraint, its purity, its precision and its delicacy, not stripped of a great force of expression. It incarnates a theory distinct from the Prosodie.

In the Prosody of Milton , it follows an empirical approach to examine the use of the Towards white at Milton and develops the discussed theory that the practice of Milton was primarily syllabic. He considers the free Verse too limited. Explaining its position in the test " Humdrum and Harum-Scarum" , it maintains that the English prosody depends on the d'" number; efforts" in a line, not of the number of syllables, and that poetry should follow the rules of the natural speech. Its own efforts of worms " libres" lead to the poets whom it describes as " syllabic néo-miltoniens" , joined together in New Pours (1925). The metric one of these poems is based on syllables rather than accents; it also employs it in the long philosophical poem The Testament off Beauty (1929), for which it is decorated about the Merit. Its most known poems belong however to the first two volumes of the Shorter Poems (1890 and 1894). He also wrote pieces of poetry, which had a limited success, and texts of literary criticism, in particular a study of the work of John Keats.

Although named Poet prize winner in 1913, Bridges forever a very known poet of the public and acquired a great popularity only little before his death with The Testament off Beauty . However, its worms were adapted by many large type-setters of the time. Among them, one can name Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst, then Gerald Finzi.

To Corpus Christi College, Bridges bound of friendship with Gerald Manley Hopkins, which is now regarded as a higher poet, but who owes his current fame with the efforts of Bridges during the preparation of the posthumous publication of his worms (1916).

Its poetry was initially printed within a private framework and was acquired slowly a small circle of admirors. A complete edition of its poetic Œuvres (6 flights.) was published in 1898-1905. Its principal volumes are Prometheus (Oxford, 1883, printed on a purely private basis), a " mask with the way grecque" ; Eros and Psyche (1885), an adaptation of the history of Apulée; The Growth off Coils , a series of 69 sonnets printed for a circulation deprived in 1876 and 1889; Shorter Poems (1890); Nero (1885), a historical tragedy, of which the second part is appeared in 1894; Achilles S in Scyros (1890), a drama; Palicio (1890), a romantic drama with the manner élisabéthaine; The Return off Ulysses S (1890), a drama in five acts; The Christian Captives (1890), a tragedy taking again the subject of El Principe Constant of Calderon; Short The Humors off the (1893), a comedy drawn from El secreto á voces , same playwright, and of El Perro LED hortelano , of Lope de Vega; The Feast off Bacchus (1889), partly translated Heauton-Timoroumenos of Terence; Hymns from the Yattendon Hymnal (Oxford, 1899); and Demeter, has Mask (Oxford, 1905).

Hymnodie

Bridges contributed in an important way to the hymnodie with the publication into 1899 of sound Yattendon Hymnal , which it specifically created for musical reasons. This collection of anthems, although it was not a financial success, opened a bridge between the hymnodie victorienne and the end of second half of the 19th century and the modern hymnodie of the beginning of the 20th century. Bridges translated important historical anthems, including one great number were integrated in Songs off Syon (1904) and late the English Hymnal (1906). Many translations of Bridges are always used today:

Ah, Holy Jesus (Johann Heermann, 1630)
All My Hope one God Is Founded (Joachim Neander, about 1680)
Jesu, Joy off Man' S Desiring (Martin Jahn, 1661)
O Gladsome Light (Phos Hilaron)
O Sacred Head, sore wounded (Paulus Gerhardt, 1656)
O Splendor off God' S Glory Bright (Ambroise of Milan, 4th century)
When morning gilds the skis (stanza 3, Katholisches Gesangbuch , 1744)

Poems

''London Snow''

Melancholia

The Evening Darkens Over

Principal works

Poetry

The Growth off Coils (1876; 1889)
Prometheus the Firegiver: In Mask in the Greek Manner (1884)
Nero (1885)
Eros and Psyche: With Poem Narration in Twelve Measures (1885; 1894). A history drawn from Apulée.
Return off Ulysses S (1890)
Shorter Poems , books I - IV (1890)
Shorter Poems , books I - V (1894)
Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter
The Necessity off Poetry (1918)
October and Other Poems (1920)
New Pours (1925)
The Tapestry: Poems (1925)
The Will off Beauty (1929-1930)

Critical and Tests

Milton' S Prosody, With off has Chapter one Accentual Verse (1893)
Keats (1895)
The Spirit Man (1916)
Collected Essays, Papers, etc (1927-1936)

See too

rhythmic Typology

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