Category: Poetry
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5
Why never came we here before? To think I have lived for eighteen years shut up in Fez, Hemmed by the sandy desert, and all the while There was the sea! To have never seen the sea!
Chapters
1. Volume V
Why never came we here before? To think I have lived for eighteen years shut up in Fez, Hemmed by the sandy desert, and all the while There was the sea! To have never seen the sea!
2. VOLUME I. Prometheus the Firegiver—Eros and Psyche—The_GUARDIAN._—‘The new edition is as dainty a one as any poet could desire for his work, and it will no doubt win for Mr. Bridges a considerable portion of the many new readers wh...
3. VOLUME II. Shorter Poems—New Poems—Notes._DAILY CHRONICLE._—‘Mr. Bridges is an artist whose work cannot fail to give pleasure to all who care for artistry in English verse.... We find here in full measure his sane and...
4. VOLUME III. The First Part of Nero—Achilles in Scyros—Notes._MONTHLY REVIEW._—‘Of these two fine plays the first is perhaps the more interesting, the second the more beautiful. The reader will find in it (Nero) the keen pleasure of an im...
5. VOLUME IV. Palicio—The Return of Ulysses—Notes._QUEEN._—‘Mr. Bridges, as befits a Fellow of Corpus, has to an intense degree the classical spirit. “The Return of Ulysses” breathes Greece in every line, and is instinct with t...