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• Gervais, David. “Masefield, John Edward (1878–1967).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008. 11 Aug. 2009 .

• Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. London: G. Richards, 1902; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1913. PR6025 .A77 S36 Robarts Library.
• --. Ballads. London: E. Mathews, 1903; revised edition published as Ballads and Poems, 1910. end .M383 B346 1903 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. The Everlasting Mercy. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. PR6025 .A77 E7 Robarts Library.
• --. The Story of a Round-House. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1912; revised edition, 1913. PR6025 .A77 S7 1913 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
• --. The Widow in the Bye Street. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1912. PR6025 .A77 W5 1912 Robarts Library.
• --. The Daffodil Fields. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1913; London: Heinemann, 1913. PR6025 .A77 D3 Robarts Library.
• --. Dauber: A Poem. London: Heinemann, 1913. PR6025 .A77 D35. Robarts Library.
• --. Philip the King, and Other Poems . New York, NY: Macmillan, 1914. PR .M377p E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Good Friday: A Dramatic Poem. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1915; published with additional poems as Good Friday, and Other Poems, 1916. PR .M377g E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Sonnets (from Good Friday, and Other Poems). New York, NY: Macmillan, 1916. end .M383 S66 1916 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Sonnets and Poems (from Good Friday, and Other Poems). Letchworth, England: Garden City Press, 1916. PR6025 .A77 S66 Robarts Library.
• --. Salt-Water Poems and Ballads. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1916; published as Salt-Water Ballads and Poems, 1923. PR6025 .A77 S36 1944 Robarts Library.
• --. Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1917. PR6025 .A77 L4 1917 SMC John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. The Cold Cotswolds. Cambridge, England: Express Printing Works, end .M383 C635 1917a Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Rosas. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1918. end .M383 P675 1918 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Reynard the Fox. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1919; new edition, 1920. PR6025 .A77 R4 1920 SMC John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Enslaved. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1920; published with additional poems as Enslaved, and Other Poems, 1923. PR6025 .A77 E5 John W Graham Library at Trinity College.
• --. Right Royal. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1920. PR6025 .A77 R5 John W Graham Library at Trinity College.
• --. Animula. London: Chiswick Press, 1920.
• --. King Cole. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1921. PR6025 .A77 K5 Robarts Library.
• --. The Dream. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1922; published with additional poems as The Dream, and Other Poems, 1923. end .M383 D74 1922a Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Sonnets of Good Cheer to the Lena Ashwell Players, From Their Well-Wisher, John Masefield. Mendip Press, 1926.
• --. Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1928. PR6025 .A77 M5 Robarts Library.
• --. South and East. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1929; London : Medici Society, 1929. end .M383 S69 1929 Thoams Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. The Wanderer of Liverpool. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1930. PR6025 .A77 W2 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Minnie Maylow's Story, and Other Tales and Scenes. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1931. PR6025 .A77 M65 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. A Tale of Troy. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1932; London: Heinemann, 1932. PR6025 .A77 T35 Robarts Library.
• --. A Letter from Pontus, and Other Verse. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1936. end .M383 L485 1936b Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Lines on the Tercentenary of Harvard University. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1937. end .M383 L554 1937 Robarts Library.
• --. The Country Scene in Poems. London: Collins, 1937; New York, NY: Collins, 1938. PR6025 .A77 C8 1937 SMR John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Tribute to Ballet in Poems. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1938; London: Collins, 1938. end .M383 T754 1938a ovs Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Some Verses to Some Germans. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1939. PR6025 .A77 S55 1939 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Shopping in Oxford. London: Heinemann, 1941. end .M383 S56 1941 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Gautama the Enlightened, and Other Verse. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1941. PR6025 .A77 G3 1941 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1942. PR6025 .A77 N3 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Generation Risen. London: Collins, 1942; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1943. PR6025 .A77 G4 1943 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
• --. Land Workers. London: Heinemann, 1942; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1943. end .M383 L35 1942 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Wonderings. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1943. end .M383 W654 1943b Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. On the Hill. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1949. end .M383 O544 1949a Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. The Bluebells, and Other Verses. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1961. end .M383 B58 1961 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Old Raiger, and Other Verse. London: Heinemann, 1964; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1965. eli .M383 O436 1964 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. In Glad Thanksgiving. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1967. end .M383 I536 1967b Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Robert Bridges was born October 23, 1844, in Walmer, Kent. Educated at Eton College from 1854 to 1863, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1863 to 1867, where he took a B.A., and finally at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he completed his M.B. in 1874. He served as a physician successively in London at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children on Great Ormond Street, and at the Great Northern Hospital, Holloway, before retiring from his medical practice in 1882 to live at Yattendon. Two years later, on September 3, 1884, he married Monica Waterhouse. They had three children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Edward. Before retirement he had published four books of verse, but afterwards his writing took up much more of his energy. In 1893 he published a study of Milton's prosody. By 1905 a collection of his poetry and verse plays occupied six volumes. He edited the works of poets such as Mary Coleridge and Digby Mackworth Dolben, but he also befriended one of the greatest Victorian poets, then utterly known, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and after his death, edited and published his collected poems in 1918. This act od dedicated friendship alone puts modern English poetry in debt to Bridges. Oxford University awarded him a D. Litt. in 1912, and a year later he became Poet Laureate and co-founded, with Henry Bradley and Walter Raleigh, the Society for Pure English. Bridges experimented with quantitative hexameters and unrhyming verse late in his life, when he lived near Oxford. His The Testament of Beauty (1929), in four cantos, is the pre-eminent long philosophical poem in English before T. S. Eliot's The Four Quartets. Bridges died on April 21, 1930, in Chilswell, Oxford. Here are Bridges' principal books of poetry:

• Bridges, Robert. Poems. London: Pickering, 1873. end .B753 A155 Fisher Rare Books Library
• --. The Growth of Love. London: Bumpus, 1876. Revised edn. Oxford: Daniel, 1889. end .B753 G76 1890 Fisher Rare Books Library
• --. Eros & Psyche. London: Bell, 1885. PR4161 .B6 N38 Robarts Library. Revised edn. 1894. end .B753 E76 1894 Fisher Rare Books Library
• --. The Shorter Poems. London: Bell, 1890-94.
• --. Shorter Poems Book V. Oxford: H. Daniel, 1893.
• --. Poetical Works. 6 vols. London: Smith, Elder, 1898-1905.
• --. Poetical Works. London: Oxford University Press, 1912.
• --. October and Other Poems, with Occasional Verses on the War. London: Heinemann, 1920. PR4161 .B6 O38 Robarts Library
• --. New Verse: Explanations of the Prosody of My Late Syllabic Free Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. end .B753 N48 1925 Fisher Rare Books Library
• --. The Tapestry. London, 1925.
• --. The Testament of Beauty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929. PR 4161 .B6T4 Robarts Library

For more about Bridges' works and life, see

• Hamilton, Lee Tamplin. Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991. Z 8119.2 .H36 Robarts Library
• Phillips, Catherine. Robert Bridges: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. PR 4161 .B6Z82 Robarts Library
• --. “Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.