Robert Bloomfield: Lyrics, Class, And the Romantic Canon

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-09-30
Publisher(s): Associated Univ Pr
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Summary

This collection includes essays that consider how Bloomfield's poetry contributes to an understanding of the predominant issues, forms, and themes of literary Romanticism.

Table of Contents

The farmer's boy and contemporary politicsp. 27
Illustrating The farmer's boyp. 49
Labor and an ethic of variety in The farmer's boyp. 70
Colonial spaces and national identities in The banks of Wye : Bloomfield and the Wye after Wordsworthp. 89
Hospitality and the rural tradition : Bloomfield's May-Day with the musesp. 113
The vaccine rose : patronage, pastoralism, and public healthp. 142
"The only privilege our sex enjoy" : women's storytelling in Bloomfield and Clarep. 159
A lyric for the Artisan poet : "to my old oak table"p. 178
Science, superstition, and song : varieties of religious experience in the poetry of Robert Bloomfieldp. 195
An infant poem of war : Bloomfield's "on seeing the launch of the Boyne"p. 213
Burying Bloomfield : poetical remains and "the unlettered muse"p. 232
Georgic ecologyp. 253
"Domestic happiness, thou only bliss" : common and divided ground in William Cowper and Robert Bloomfieldp. 269
Robert Bloomfield : a provisional checklist of his published work, with some bibliographical notes and a record of later editionsp. 288
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