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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naturally confusing to an American that we have our own Robert Bridges, who was born in 1858 at Shippensburg, Pa.; he is a most genial, attractive, popular gentleman, editor and poet. That Mr. Robert Bridges, American, editor of Scribner's, clubman, author of Bramble Brae, admirer of Roosevelt, was going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Robert Bridges | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

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