biography
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Bridges, Robert (Seymour)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1844–1930)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Walmer, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, qualified in medicine, and practised in London. He published three volumes of graceful lyrics (1873, 1879, 1880), wrote several plays, the narrative poem Eros and Psyche (1885), and other works, including a great deal of literary criticism. He was also an advocate of spelling reform. From 1907 he lived in seclusion at Oxford, publishing comparatively little; then in 1929, on his 85th birthday, he issued his most ambitious poem, The Testament of Beauty. He became poet laureate in 1913. |
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