Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Published: July 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780754657538
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Poetry & poets: 19th century; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Great Britain; History and criticism; Pastoral poetry, English; Romanticism
Description: "Until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of Robert Bloomfield's poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets." "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."--Jacket.