Despite holding the Laureateship from 1913 to his death in 1930, Robert Bridges is better known today as the editor and champion of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins than as a poet in his own right. In this, the first full-length biography, Catherine Phillips seeks to redress the balance by focusing on Bridges's long and full life, and on his achievements as a poet and literary commentator. Interested throughout his life in orthography and etymology, he co-founded the Society for Pure English in 1913, while his fascination with science, philosophy, music, and literature led to friendships with Roger Fry, W.B. Yeats, Hopkins, and George Santayana. Drawing on previously unpublished material and family archives, this is a revealing study of a complex and troubled man and the times in which he lived.
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"With the appearance of this work, we can no longer think of Bridges merely as the introducer-editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry. Rather, we can appreciate him for his own achievements as poet, Poet Laureate, physician, critic, essayist, prosodist, hymnodist, editor, and letter writer....A long-overdue and appropriate biography."--Choice
"Interesting and thorough biography."--Albion
"Well presented...A readable and informative work."--Nineteenth Century Literature
"Phillips leaves us with the firm impression of a man of lively intelligence and deep feeling who faced the crisis of modernity yet also subjected modernity to the critique of the classical-Christian tradition that he inherited and modified yet whose essential principles he never abandoned."--Current books in Review
"She offers welcome detail about Bridge's family, friendships, reading and publications; makes no excessive claims for his poetry, though appreciating its strengths; and illustrates his quirkness and self-involvement without diminishing his admirable personal qualities."--English Literature in Transition
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