Remains

Remains
Author: Robert Bloomfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1824
Genre:
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Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community

Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community
Author: Simon J. White
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: 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.

Robert Bloomfield

Robert Bloomfield
Author: Simon White
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006
Genre: 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.

John Clare and Community

John Clare and Community
Author: John Goodridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 052188702X

John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton, Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped in, to create an unrivalled poetic record of a rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life, Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation.

Robert Bloomfield

Robert Bloomfield
Author: Jonathan Lawson
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: