Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 4

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.