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.
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