Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Robert Bridges (English Poet)

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) was an English poet and literary critic. His long philosophical poem The Testament of Beauty, written in the Victorian tradition, was instantly famous. He was Poet Laureate 1913–30.

Born in Walmer, Kent, Bridges was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College-Oxford, then studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and practiced until 1881. At Oxford, he met poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. Bridges arranged for the posthumous publication of Hopkins’s poems in 1918.

Bridges’s early volumes include The Growth of Love (1876,) a sequence of sonnets. After the two long poems Prometheus the Firegiver (1883) and Eros and Psyche (1885,) he focused on writing eight plays for the next decade, only one of which was performed in his lifetime. He contributed to criticism with studies of Milton’s Prosody (1893) and John Keats (1895.) He wrote poems set to music by composer Hubert Parry and A Practical Discourse on Hymn Singing (1901.)

Bridges was an excellent meterist who wrote many beautiful lyrics and longer poems, well known for their refined simplicity and perfection of form. In 1912, he published his Collected Poems, and in 1913 was appointed Poet Laureate and produced The Spirit of Man (1916.) After World War I, he published October and Other Poems (1920) and the long poem The Testament of Beauty (1929.)

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I live on hope, and that I think do all who come into this world.
Robert Bridges
Topics: Hope

When Death to either shall come—I pray it be first to me.
Robert Bridges
Topics: Lovers, Love

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges
Topics: Gardening

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
Robert Bridges
Topics: Love

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