The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bridges, Robert (English poet)

BRIDGES, Robert, English poet: b. 23 Oct. 1844. Educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he afterward studied medicine and held several hospital appointments, retiring from the active exercise of his profession in 1882. He is one of the most scholarly of modern English poets and has published, usually privately, eight plays and several collections of poems. He succeeded Alfred Austin as Poet Laureate in 1913. Among his works are ‘Prometheus’; ‘Achilles in Scyros’; ‘Eros and Psyche’; ‘Shorter Poems’; ‘Milton's Prosody.’ Selections of his more outstanding verse were published in three volumes, 1898-1900, and his complete poetical works, excluding his plays, appeared in 1913.