Poetical Works
of
ROBERT BRIDGES
Volume I
London
Smith, Elder & Co
15 Waterloo Place
1898
OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
POETICAL WORKS OF
ROBERT BRIDGES
VOLUME THE FIRST
CONTAINING
LIST OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS
PROMETHEUS.
1. Private Press of H. Daniel. Oxford, 1883.
2. Chiswick Press. Geo. Bell & Sons, 1884.
EROS AND PSYCHE.
1. Chiswick Press. Geo. Bell & Sons, 1885.
2. Do. do. Revised, 1894.
This last volume is still on sale.
GROWTH OF LOVE.
1. XXIV Sonnets. Ed. Bumpus, 1876.
2. LXXIX Sonnets. Daniel Press, 1889.
This edition was copied in America.
3. Do. do. Black letter. 1890.
PROMETHEUS
THE
FIREGIVER
A MASK IN THE
GREEK MANNER
ARGUMENT
PROMETHEUS COMING ON EARTH TO GIVE FIRE TOMEN APPEARS BEFORE THE PALACE OF INACHUS INARGOS ON A FESTIVAL OF ZEUS · HE INTERRUPTS THECEREMONY BY ANNOUNCING FIRE AND PERSUADESINACHUS TO DARE THE ANGER OF ZEUS AND ACCEPTTHE GIFT · INACHUS FETCHING ARGEIA HIS WIFE FROMTHE PALACE HAS IN TURN TO QUIET HER FEARS · HEASKS A PROPHECY OF PROMETHEUS WHO FORETELLS THEFATE OF IO THEIR DAUGHTER · PROMETHEUS THENSETTING FLAME TO THE ALTAR AND WRITING HIS OWNNAME THEREON IN THE P