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Entries: Edwardian Age - "Victorianism lingered on in the verses of the laureate, Alfred Austin (succeeded in 1913 by Robert Bridges)..." Echo - "In a curious display of ingenuity, in a line from Euripides' Medea--- [transliterated 'Eith ophel' Argous me diaptasthai skaphos'---'Oh how I wish that ship the Argo (had never sailed off...)]---is quoted in Robert Bridges' 'Poor Poll' (1921), followed by an English line that echoes the Greek sounds and even translates some of the meaning: 'I'd hold embargoes on such a ghastly traffic.'" Hypermonosyllable - "Used in Robert Bridges's Milton's Prosody for a word like 'power' when scanned as a monosyllable. Bridges observed that such words count as two syllables in Milton's earlier poetry and as on in his later--- the two sometimes distinguished as 'power' and 'pow'r.'" Modernist Period (English) - "In 1914, Bridges was Poet Laureate..." Palindrome - "Keats, Poe, and Bridges all used 'dim' and 'mid' near each other in poems." "Bridges: 'Mid the wreathings of the vapour dim.'" Poet Laureate - 1913-1930 Purist - "There has been a Society for Pure English well into our own day, and a number of important writers---for example, [...] Bridges---have been involved in a purist sentiment of linguistic nationalism..." Realistic Period (English) - Listed among poets "to do distinguished work before the beginning of WWI." Testament - "The second type of testament, that which 'bears witness to,' was also developed in the late medieval period. [...] A modern representative is Robert Bridge's The Testament of Beauty (1929)."