Word: prosodist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Robert Seymour Bridges, 85 since 1913 Poet Laureate of England; after a short illness; at his home, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world-Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less...
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