[Public Domain Review] The Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben

Wed Nov 14 16:39:06 UTC 2012

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  THE STRANGELY TROUBLED LIFE OF DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN

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In 1911 the soon-to-be poet laureate Robert Bridges published the poems 
of Digby Mackworth Dolben, a school friend who had drowned to death at 
the age of 19 almost half a century earlier. Carl Miller looks at 
Bridges’ lengthy introduction in which he tells of the short and tragic 
life of the boy with whom fellow poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was 
reportedly besotted.*

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