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Biography

Name: Robert Bloomfield
Birth Date: December 3, 1766
Death Date: August 19, 1823
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert Bloomfield
3,424 words, approx. 11 pages
Robert Bloomfield is perhaps the best of England's rural or "uneducated" poets, as Robert Southey termed them. Certainly his first and best work, The Farmer's Boy, struck an amazingly resonant chord with English readers, who bought some twenty-six...


Quotations
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Robert Bloomfield Quotes
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Robert Bloomfield ( December 3 , 1766 - August 19 , 1823 ) was an English poet. Sourced A Spring o'erhung with many a flow'r, The grey sand dancing in its bed, Embank'd beneath a Hawthorn bower, Sent forth its waters near my head: A rosy Lass...


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Robert Bloomfield Information
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Robert Bloomfield (December 3, 1766 - August 19, 1823), was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He lost his father when he was a year old, and received the rudiments of education from his mother, who kept...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Bloomfield
09/18/1997: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
MIKE LOPRESTI The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-18-1997 BLOOMFIELD By MIKE LOPRESTI Date: 09-18-1997, Thursday Section: SPECIAL SECTION / SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star The Bengals are a senior dominated squad that...
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Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
John Clare and eighteenth-century poetry: Pomfret, Cunningham, Bloomfield.(poets John Pomfret, John Cunningham, and Robert Bloomfield)(Critical Essay)
09/22/2001: 7,001 words, approx. 23 pages
In the study of "laboring-class" poetry there has been a move away from the Bloomian model of literary influence, towards models of intertextuality which more accurately reflect the social and intellectual conditions in which these writers worked, and their often influence-hungry stance. (1)...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Lawson
21,554 words, approx. 72 pages
In the following excerpt, Lawson discusses some of Bloomfield's later works, including his poem on the smallpox epidemic, and evaluates the poet's rural identity and influences.
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Critical Essay by Rayner Unwin
8,954 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following excerpt, the author reviews the critical response of Bloomfield's contemporaries to his poetry as well as some of the salient features of the poet's biography. A close reading of The Farmer's Boy yields a discussion of Bloomfield's restraint from moralizing and of his conservative intellectual approach.
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Critical Essay by John Lucas
5,537 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Lucas argues that Bloomfield's “poetry was a means of securing a social identity at odds with his own origins.” He also interprets Clare's praise for Bloomfield's poetry as praise for the depiction of an ideal, uncorrupted rural life.
 


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