Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class, and the Romantic CanonSimon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan Bucknell University Press, 2006 - 315 páginas "The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem by Robert Bloomfield was published on March 1, 1800. It was an immediate success, going through seven editions, and selling twenty-six thousand copies in less than three years. Bloomfield published four additional volumes of poetry: Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs; Wild Flowers: or; Pastoral and Local Poetry; The Banks of Wye; and May-Day with the Muses. His work sold well during the nineteenth century, but over the course of the twentieth century, he became marginalized, unread, and ignored by academic criticism. A renewed interest in Bloomfield has, however, begun to take root over the last few years, driven in part by the continuing reconsideration of the traditional canon of Romanticism. Once again, Bloomfield is beginning to receive the attention that he deserves. This volume of critical essays marks Bloomfield's reemergence as a significant literary figure and will demonstrate his relevance with current reevaluations of Romantic culture. Consisting of fifteen individual chapters, this collection brings together three types of essays: those considering major volumes of poetry by Bloomfield; those essays focusing on particular themes that dominate his corpus of work; and essays examining the significance of Bloomfield in a broader context."--Publisher's website. |
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Labor and an Ethic of Variety in The Farmers Boy | 70 |
Bloomfield and the Wye after Wordsworth | 89 |
Bloomfields MayDay with the Muses | 113 |
Patronage Pastoralism and Public Health | 142 |
Womens Storytelling in Bloomfield and Clare | 159 |
To My Old Oak Table | 178 |
Bloomfields On Seeing the Launch of the Boyne | 213 |
Poetical Remains and the unlettered muse | 232 |
Georgic Ecology | 253 |
Common and Divided Ground in William Cowper and Robert Bloomfield | 269 |
A Provisional Checklist of His Published Work with Some Bibliographical Notes and a Record of Later Editions | 288 |
Notes on Contributors | 302 |
Index | 305 |
Varieties of Religious Experience in the Poetry of Robert Bloomfield | 195 |
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