ABSTRACT
Robert Bridges (1844-1930), poet laureate and prosodist, notoriously ‘couldn’t abide’ Donne’s poetry. H.J.C.Grierson sent him a copy of the 1912 edition of Donne’s poems, which he promised to study very carefully and apparently went on to annotate. But his immediate response to Grierson was to account for his dislike of Donne’s verse (The Selected Letters of Robert Bridges, ed. D.E.Stanford, vol. II, 1984, pp. 650-1).
