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This collection includes essays that consider how Bloomfield's poetry contributes to an understanding of the predominant issues, forms, and themes of literary Romanticism.
Author : Simon White
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838756294
This collection includes essays that consider how Bloomfield's poetry contributes to an understanding of the predominant issues, forms, and themes of literary Romanticism.
Author : Robert Bloomfield
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Robert Bloomfield
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1821
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Author : Robert Bloomfield
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
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Author : Peter Cochran
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1443855960
Robert Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy was the most successful poem of the “Romantic” period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with Suffolk vowel-sounds and Suffolk idioms. This edition prints Bloomfield’s first manuscript, and then has a parallel text of the “polished” first edition, opposite Bloomfield’s second manuscript, made for his own use and for that of his family, in which he changes the poem back to the form in which he wrote, heard, and read it. Thus Bloomfield’s intentions appear for the first time, edited in detail from the original manuscripts at Harvard. Also included are the two eighteenth-century poems The Thresher’s Labour by Stephen Duck, and The Woman’s Labour by Mary Collier.
Author : Simon J. White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 135190289X
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 between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets. For example, her argues that Wordsworth's poetics of rural life was in some respects a response to Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy. White considers Bloomfield's emphasis on the importance of local tradition and community in the lives of labouring people. In challenging the idea that the formal and rhetorical innovation of Wordsworth and Coleridge was principally responsible for the emergence of a new kind of poetry at the turn of the eighteenth century, he also shows that it is impossible to understand how the lyric and the literary ballad evolved during the Romantic period without considering Bloomfield's poetry. White's authoritative study demonstrates that, on the contrary, Bloomfield's poetry was pivotal in the development of Romanticism.
Author : Robert Bloomfield
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Robert Bloomfield
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Country life
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Author : W. Betts (Shefford)
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1824
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Author : Robert Bloomfield
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 1823
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