The New International Encyclopædia/Bridges, Robert (English poet)

BRIDG′ES, Robert (1844—). An English poet. He was educated at Eton and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; studied medicine at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, London; and held several important hospital appointments before his retirement (1882). Bridges has published eight plays and several volumes of verse, often privately printed. His choicest poems (with bibliography) have been reprinted in three volumes (London, 1898-1901). Late Victorian poetry probably has nothing better than Prometheus; Achilles in Scyros; and Shorter Poems. Bridges has also written on Milton and Keats. Especially noteworthy is his Milton's Prosody (Oxford, 1893), which has been enlarged and reprinted with an essay by W. J. Stone on “Classical Metres in English Verse” (Oxford, 1901).