Tim Fulford and John Goodridge have created a new website presenting their scholarly edition of Bloomfield’s Collected Writings — including his bestselling The Farmer’s Boy, his poem/journal/sketchbook The Banks of Wye, his Rural Tales and May-day for the Muses and his manuscript account of his workmates (one of the few texts that describes the labour, culture and sociality of London artisans in detail).
The website also features The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and his Circle — the only scholarly edition of his correspondence, which includes letters to and from John Clare and Robert Southey. Poems by Bloomfield’s brother Nat (and Byron’s satiric response) are also presented, plus a series of illustrations of Bloomfield’s poems, some by the studio of Thomas Bewick.
A section of Critical Reflections collects responses to Bloomfield from his own time — reviews from journals — and a series of essays by today’s scholars.
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