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==Life==
==Life==
'''Born:''' 1844
'''Born:''' 23 October 1844


'''Died:''' 1930
'''Died:''' 21 April 1930


'''Biography'''<br>
'''Biography'''<br>
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Robert Seymour Bridges was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913.
Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913
Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and intended to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. He was afterwards assistant physician at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and physician at the Great Northern Hospital. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research.[2][3]


Bridges' literary work started long before his retirement, his first collection of poems having been published in 1873. In 1884 he married Monica Waterhouse, daughter of Alfred Waterhouse R.A., and spent the rest of his life in rural seclusion, first at Yattendon, Berkshire, then at Boars Hill, Oxford, where he died. The poet Elizabeth Daryush was his daughter.
Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and intended to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research.


As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his work has had great influence in a select circle, by its restraint, purity, precision, and delicacy yet strength of expression. It embodies a distinct theory of prosody.
Bridges' literary work started long before his retirement, his first collection of poems having been published in 1873. As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his work has had great influence in a select circle, by its restraint, purity, precision, and delicacy yet strength of expression. It embodies a distinct theory of prosody.


In the book Milton's Prosody, he took an empirical approach to examining Milton's use of blank verse, and developed the controversial theory that Milton's practice was essentially syllabic. He considered free verse to be too limiting, and explained his position in the essay "Humdrum and Harum-Scarum". He maintained that English prosody depended on the number of "stresses" in a line, not on the number of syllables, and that poetry should follow the rules of natural speech. His own efforts to "free" verse resulted in the poems he called "Neo-Miltonic Syllabics", which were collected in New Verse (1925). The meter of these poems was based on syllables rather than accents, and he used the principle again in the long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty (1929), for which he received the Order of Merit. His best-known poems, however, are to be found in the two earlier volumes of Shorter Poems (1890, 1894). He also wrote verse plays, with limited success, and literary criticism, including a study of the work of John Keats.
His own efforts to "free" verse resulted in the poems he called "Neo-Miltonic Syllabics", which were collected in New Verse (1925). The meter of these poems was based on syllables rather than accents, and he used the principle again in the long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty (1929), for which he received the Order of Merit. His best-known poems, however, are to be found in the two earlier volumes of Shorter Poems (1890, 1894). He also wrote verse plays, with limited success, and literary criticism, including a study of the work of John Keats.


Despite being made poet laureate in 1913, Bridges was never a very well-known poet and only achieved his great popularity shortly before his death with The Testament of Beauty. However, his verse evoked response in many great English composers of the time. Among those to set his poems to music were Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst, and later Gerald Finzi.
Despite being made poet laureate in 1913, Bridges was never a very well-known poet and only achieved his great popularity shortly before his death with The Testament of Beauty. However, his verse evoked response in many great English composers of the time. Among those to set his poems to music were [[Charles Hubert Hastings Parry|Hubert Parry]], [[Gustav Holst]], and later [[Gerald Finzi]].
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At Corpus Christi College, Bridges became friends with Gerard Manley Hopkins, who is now considered a superior poet but who owes his present fame to Bridges' efforts in arranging the posthumous publication (1916) of his verse.[8]
==Settings of his poetic works==
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Bridges' poetry was privately printed in the first instance, and was slow in making its way beyond a comparatively small circle of his admirers. His best work is to be found in his Shorter Poems (1890), and a complete edition of his Poetical Works (6 vols.) was published in 1898-1905. His chief volumes are Prometheus (Oxford, 1883, privately printed), a "mask in the Greek Manner"; Eros and Psyche (1885), a version of the story from Apuleius; The Growth of Love, a series of sixty-nine sonnets printed for private circulation in 1876 and 1889; Shorter Poems (1890); Nero (1885), a historical tragedy, the second part of which appeared in 1894; Achilles in Scyros (1890), a drama; Palicio (1890), a romantic drama in the Elizabethan manner; The Return of Ulysses (1890), a drama in five acts; The Christian Captives (1890), a tragedy on the same subject as Calderon's El Principe Constante; The Humours of the Court (1893), a comedy founded on the same dramatist's El secreto á voces and on Lope de Vega's El Perro del hortelano; The Feast of Bacchus (1889), partly translated from the Heauton-Timoroumenos of Terence; Hymns from the Yattendon Hymnal (Oxford, 1899); and Demeter, a Mask (Oxford, 1905).
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==List of poetic works==
 
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* '''Eight Four-part Songs''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1898)
* '''Eight Four-part Songs''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1898)
: 7. ''Ye Thrilled Me Once'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
: 7. ''Ye Thrilled Me Once''
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* ''I Praise the Tender Flower'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)  
* ''I Praise the Tender Flower'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)  


* '''Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)  
* '''Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)  
:# ''Intro. Myriad Voiced Queen!: Moderato/Turn, O Return!: Allegretto Tranquillo'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''Intro. Myriad Voiced Queen!: Moderato/Turn, O Return!: Allegretto Tranquillo''
:# ''Thee, Fair Poetry Oft Hath Sought: Allegretto Tranquillo '' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''Thee, Fair Poetry Oft Hath Sought: Allegretto Tranquillo''
:# ''The Monstrous Sea: Maestoso Energico '' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''The Monstrous Sea: Maestoso Energico''
:# ''Love To Love Calleth: Andante Appassionato '' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''Love To Love Calleth: Andante Appassionato''
:# ''Dirge. To Me, To Me, Fair-Hearted Goddess, Come '' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''Dirge. To Me, To Me, Fair-Hearted Goddess, Come''
:# ''Man, Born Of Desire: Moderato/Rejoice, Ye Dead, Where'er Your Spirits Dwell'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''Man, Born Of Desire: Moderato/Rejoice, Ye Dead, Where'er Your Spirits Dwell''
:# ''O Enter With Me The Gates Of Delight: Allegro Vivace '' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''O Enter With Me The Gates Of Delight: Allegro Vivace''
:# ''Chor: 'Thou, O Queen Of Sinless Grace': Allegro Vivo '' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
# ''Chor: 'Thou, O Queen Of Sinless Grace': Allegro Vivo''
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* '''Seven Partsongs - (Gerald Finzi)) - Opus 17'''
:1. I praise the tender flower - (Gerald Finzi)
:2. I have loved flowers that fade - (Gerald Finzi)
:3. My spirit sang all day - (Gerald Finzi)
:4. Clear and gentle stream  - (Gerald Finzi)
:5. Nightingales - (Gerald Finzi)
:6. Haste on, my joys! - (Gerald Finzi)
:7. Wherefore tonight so full of care - (Gerald Finzi)
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* '''Six Modern Lyrics: - (1897)''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
* '''Seven Partsongs''' - (Gerald Finzi) - Opus 17
: 2. [[Since thou, O fondest (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)|''Since Thou, O Fondest and Truest'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(&nbsp;[{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/f/fd/Since_Thou_O_Fondest.pdf {{pdf}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/7/71/Since_Thou_O_Fondest.mid {{mid}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/8/81/Since_Thou_O_Fondest.sib Sibelius 4]&nbsp;)
:1. ''I praise the tender flower''
: 5. ''What Voice of Gladness'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
:2. ''I have loved flowers that fade''
:3. ''My spirit sang all day''
:4. ''Clear and gentle stream''
:5. ''Nightingales''
:6. ''Haste on, my joys!''
:7. ''Wherefore tonight so full of care''


* '''Six Part Songs: - (1909)''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
* '''Six Modern Lyrics''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1897)
: 6. [[My delight and thy delight (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)|''My delight and thy delight - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)'']]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(&nbsp;[{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/a/ad/My_Delight_and_Thy_Delight.pdf {{pdf}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/6/6c/My_Delight_and_Thy_Delight.mid {{mid}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/2/27/My_Delight_and_Thy_Delight.sib Sibelius 4]&nbsp;)
: 2. ''Since Thou, O Fondest and Truest''
: 5. ''What Voice of Gladness''


* ''The Chivalry of the Sea'' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
* '''Six Part Songs''' - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1909)
: 6. ''My delight and thy delight''


==Publications==
==Publications==
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*[http://www.squidoo.com/poetry-by-robert-seymour-bridges-3 Poetyr byRobert Seymour Bridges].
*[http://www.squidoo.com/poetry-by-robert-seymour-bridges-3 Poetyr byRobert Seymour Bridges].
*[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/bridges/ Texts of Robert Seymour Bridges which has been set to music].
*[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/bridges/ Texts of Robert Seymour Bridges which has been set to music].


[[Category:Lyricists|Bridges, Robert Seymour]]
[[Category:Lyricists|Bridges, Robert Seymour]]
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Revision as of 00:43, 6 March 2017

Life

Born: 23 October 1844

Died: 21 April 1930

Biography
Robert Seymour Bridges was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913.

Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and intended to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. Lung disease forced him to retire in 1882, and from that point on he devoted himself to writing and literary research.

Bridges' literary work started long before his retirement, his first collection of poems having been published in 1873. As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his work has had great influence in a select circle, by its restraint, purity, precision, and delicacy yet strength of expression. It embodies a distinct theory of prosody.

His own efforts to "free" verse resulted in the poems he called "Neo-Miltonic Syllabics", which were collected in New Verse (1925). The meter of these poems was based on syllables rather than accents, and he used the principle again in the long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty (1929), for which he received the Order of Merit. His best-known poems, however, are to be found in the two earlier volumes of Shorter Poems (1890, 1894). He also wrote verse plays, with limited success, and literary criticism, including a study of the work of John Keats.

Despite being made poet laureate in 1913, Bridges was never a very well-known poet and only achieved his great popularity shortly before his death with The Testament of Beauty. However, his verse evoked response in many great English composers of the time. Among those to set his poems to music were Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst, and later Gerald Finzi.

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Settings of his poetic works

Settings of text by Robert Bridges

Other settings

  • Eight Four-part Songs - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1898)
7. Ye Thrilled Me Once
  • I Praise the Tender Flower - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
  • Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
  1. Intro. Myriad Voiced Queen!: Moderato/Turn, O Return!: Allegretto Tranquillo
  2. Thee, Fair Poetry Oft Hath Sought: Allegretto Tranquillo
  3. The Monstrous Sea: Maestoso Energico
  4. Love To Love Calleth: Andante Appassionato
  5. Dirge. To Me, To Me, Fair-Hearted Goddess, Come
  6. Man, Born Of Desire: Moderato/Rejoice, Ye Dead, Where'er Your Spirits Dwell
  7. O Enter With Me The Gates Of Delight: Allegro Vivace
  8. Chor: 'Thou, O Queen Of Sinless Grace': Allegro Vivo
  • Seven Partsongs - (Gerald Finzi) - Opus 17
1. I praise the tender flower
2. I have loved flowers that fade
3. My spirit sang all day
4. Clear and gentle stream
5. Nightingales
6. Haste on, my joys!
7. Wherefore tonight so full of care
  • Six Modern Lyrics - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1897)
2. Since Thou, O Fondest and Truest
5. What Voice of Gladness
  • Six Part Songs - (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) - (1909)
6. My delight and thy delight

Publications

External links

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