Chapter VI: A Study of Shakespeare

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN, BEDFORD ST.

OCTOBER
AND OTHER POEMS
WITH OCCASIONAL VERSES
ON THE WAR

BY
ROBERT BRIDGES
POET LAUREATE

1920

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

TO
GENERAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS
PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNION
OF SOUTH AFRICA
SOLDIER, STATESMAN, & SEER
WITH THE AUTHOR’S
HOMAGE