Robert Bridges: A Biography

by Catherine Phillips

Despite holding the Laureateship from 1913 to his death in 1930, Robert Bridges is better known today as the editor and champion of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins than as a poet in his own right. In this, the first full-length biography, Catherine Phillips seeks to redress the balance by focusing on Bridges's long and full life, and on his achievements as a poet and literary commentator. Interested throughout his life in orthography and etymology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192122517
• ISBN13: 9780192122513
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"