Elizabeth Daryush

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Elizabeth Daryush (1887-1977) was an English poet. She was the daughter of Robert Bridges; her maternal grandfather was Alfred Waterhouse. She married Ali Akbar Daryush, whom she had met when he was studying at the University of Oxford and spent some time in Persia; most of her life was spent in Boar's Hill, outside Oxford. Some of her early work was published as Elizabeth Bridges.

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• Sonnets from Hafez and other Verses (1921) as Elizabeth Bridges
• Verses (1930) (OUP)
• Verses, Fourth Book (1934)
• Poems (1935) (Macmillan)
• The Last Man and Other Verses (1936)
• Selected Poems (1948) edited by Yvor Winters
• Verses: Seventh Book (1971) Carcanet Press
• Selected Poems (1972) Carcanet Press
• Collected Poems (1976) Carcanet Press