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Robert Bridges(1844 – 1930)

Poems written in the year MCMXIII©

Robert Bridges originally trained as a doctor, but also became a published poet. He was one of only two living poets included in the Oxford Standard Poets series in 1912, and was appointed Poet Laureate the following year. His experimentation with poetic forms and language culminated in The Testament of Beauty (1929), after which he was awarded the Order of Merit.


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