Poetical Works
of
ROBERT BRIDGES
Volume IV
London
Smith, Elder & Co.
15 Waterloo Place
11902
A collected volume presents dramatic poems in Elizabethan and mixed modes, featuring a five-act romantic drama set amid Spanish rule in Sicily that stages political unrest around a viceroy, a fugitive brigand leader, and entangled love affairs, alongside a poetic treatment of Achilles hidden at Scyros and a five-act account of a hero’s return. The pieces interweave formal verse and stagecraft, alternating intimate lyric moments with public scenes, and probe themes of loyalty, authority, identity, and the personal costs of exile and homecoming.
Volume IV
London
Smith, Elder & Co.
15 Waterloo Place
11902