Robert Bridges

I had never heard of this hymn, but the name Robert Bridges did ring a bell: he was Poet Laureate of England from 1913 to 1930.

Semicolon 2009

Robert Bridges says that house prices increased on average 3.6% per year between 1980 and 2010.

Homes Versus Stocks: You Can't Live in Your Portfolio 2011

In the first of these, the authors display their chauvinism by crediting Robert Bridges with the return to syllabic verse which they credit him as “pioneering...in his old age, he did not master the form until his last poem”55 in 1929, Even when they finally do get around to mentioning Marianne Moore, it is after mentioning Dylan Thomas.

THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO EILEEN 2009

Sales may increase in coming months because prospective buyers believe the market is at a bottom, said Robert Bridges, a professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

Home Prices Rise in California Again 2009

I began this journey back in the 1960s and have continued it ever since, cutting away whatever stories have accrued to Hopkins through the misrepresentation of his contemporaries and even the misunderstandings of his close friend, Robert Bridges.

'The Poet & the Wreck': An Exchange Ford, Mark 2009

Indeed, the OED quotes Robert Bridges as using both in a single line of a poem which as a whole is certainly in Standard English: “The snow came flying … Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying.”

Language, Variety, Dialect | Linguism 2009

Yes, Hopkins was tempted by the sensuous and even by the homoerotic, but he was a priest first and foremost, and his "dearest" love was neither Digby Dolben, nor Robert Bridges, nor the boys in the barracks, but God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

'The Poet & the Wreck': An Exchange Ford, Mark 2009

This committee originally had six members, including the then Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, as Chairman, and George Bernard Shaw as Deputy Chairman.

The BBC and its Pronunciation Unit | Linguism 2008

Hampshire; Colonel Higginson, Robert Bridges, and other distinguished men.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Twenty-nine years later, in December 1918, the first collection of his poems was published, assembled and edited by his friend, the poet Robert Bridges.

The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins Donoghue, Denis 1991