Robert Bridges — Collected Essays Papers & C

London, Oxford University Press, 1927-1930. Cloth. A three volume set of the collected essays and works of Robert Bridges. Volumes I-III of original ten. Volumes include: Volume I: The Influence of the audience on Shakespeare's Drama, Volume II: II. Humdrum & harum-scarum, a lecture on free verse. II Poetic Diction, Volume III: IV. A Critical introduction to Keats. Robert Seymour Bridges was a British poet and Poet Laureate between 1913 and 1930. Despite this title, Bridges was not a particularly well known poet but was popular after his death thanks to his poem The Testament of Beauty. He was wrote plays and literary criticism, most famous for his study of John Keats. In cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed with some bumping. Heavily sunned to volume I. Spine sunned particularly to spine labels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with heavier spotting to first and last few pages and to Volume I. Good . Ill.: None. Good .