1st Edition
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community
By Simon J. White
Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Farmer's Boy, The Prelude and the poetics of rural life; The romantic ballad and labouring-class culture; The romantic lyric and the lyric of labour; Betwixt and between patrons, publishers and readers; 'History from below' on The Banks of [the] Wye; Community labour and poetry in May Day with the Muses; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Simon J. White is a Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
'... an authoritative and illuminating account of a Bloomfield intricately caught up with the culture of his time, its tastes, its prejudices and its politics.' BARS Bulletin and Review
