Fascinating, Robert. It always amazes me that Bridges is so nearly forgotten, until I consider that he lives only in my anthologies, and that I have no book of his, an oversight I always swear I shall attend to. Yes, it's flawless accentual verse. I might have attempted to do the same thing in a fourth the space, and failed. Have you any notion: to what degree did he influence Frost and Hardy, who in their "loose iambics" surpass him?
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