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See also:ROBERT See also:BRIDGES (1844– )
, See also:English poet, See also:born on the 23rd of See also:October 1844, was educated at See also:Eton and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, and studied See also:medicine in See also:London at St See also:Bartholomew's See also:hospital
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He was afterwards assistant physician at the See also:Children's hospital, See also:Great See also:Ormond See also:Street, and physician at the Great See also:Northern hospital, retiring in 1882
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Two years later he married See also:Mary, daughter of See also:Alfred See also:Waterhouse, R.A
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As a poet See also:Robert See also:Bridges stands rather apart from the current of See also:modern English See also:verse, but his See also:work has had great See also:influence in a select circle, by its See also:restraint, purity, precision, and delicacy yet strength of expression; and it embodies a distinct theory of See also:prosody
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His See also:chief See also:critical See also:works are See also:Milton's Prosody (1893), a See also:volume made up of two earlier essays (1887 and 1889), and See also: |
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