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Excerpt from Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate: Readings From His Poems; A Public Lecture Delivered in the Examination Schools on November 8, 1913
Undoubtedly the event of the vacation for us in Oxford, the event of the year in the English literary world, was the appointment of our neighbour, the friend of many of us, Mr. Robert Bridges, to be Poet Laureate. The friend of many Of us.' I ought to tell you at the outstart that I am an old friend, and I Speak with the partiality of an Old friend. You may discount my Opinion, if you will, proportionately. But it is my belief that it is an event and an appointment of no small or brief importance.
I would begin with one word, or rather really two words, of congratulation. I would congratulate Mr. Bridges in your name and in the name of his university, of which he has shown himself not only such a worthy, but such a loyal and affectionate son. And I would congratulate that other son of Oxford, the Prime Minister, and thank him for not having listened to those in Parlia ment and elsewhere, who would fain have persuaded him to abolish this historic and picturesque office.
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