NOTE
Reading edition
THIS book consists of the Poems and Masks (as apart from the Dramas) contained in the collected editions of the Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, together with two groups of Later Poems and Poems in Classical Prosody now published for the first time or now first collected.
A record of the previous publication of the poems will be found in the bibliographical notes prefixed to the various sections of the present book.
The spelling of certain words is not uniform throughout the poems. This is due to observance of the text of the earlier editions of different dates, in the notes to which the author's justification of these peculiarities was given.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Prometheus the Firegiver. A Mask in the Greek Manner 1
Demeter. A Mask 49
Eros and Psyche 87
The Growth of Love 185
Shorter Poems.
Book I 225
Book II 242
Book III 264
Book IV 281
Book V 301
New Poems 321
Later Poems 365
Poems in Classical Prosody 409
Index of First Lines 465