The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) Tim Fulford Romantic Circles General Editor, Neil Fraistat General Editor, Steven E. Jones General Editor, Carl Stahmer Technical Editor Laura Mandell contextuallist Romantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, MD July 9, 2009

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We present here a series of resources designed to place Bloomfield's letters in the context of his poetic career, and those of his contemporaries. A Bloomfield Chronology plots the most significant events in his life and career against those of the wider literary world. The text—now first edited from manuscript—of his unfinished poem 'To Immagination' throws new light on his achievements and dilemmas as a poet (he refers to the poem frequently in the letters in the context of his difficulties with his patron). The texts of long out-of-print poems by Robert's brothers Nathaniel and George Bloomfield (also referred to in the letters) are also included, together with select reviews of Bloomfield's own poems, illuminating the dispute with Capel Lofft about adverse public reaction to Lofft's footnotes to Rural Tales. Also included are Bloomfield's anecdotes and critical remarks printed in Remains, along with his children's book The Bird and Insects' Post-Office.

Bloomfield Chronology List of Figures

Reviews:

[Anon.], Review of Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs from The Poetical Register (January 1802), 426-27. [Anon.], Review of Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs from The Anti-Jacobin Review, 11 (1802), 394–97. [Anon.], Review of Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs from the British Critic, 19 (April 1802), 338–43. [Robert Southey], Review of Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs from The Critical Review, 35 (May 1802), 67–75.

Supplementary Texts:

Robert Bloomfield, 'To Immagination', British Library Add. MS 30809, ff. 1–7. Robert Bloomfield, 'Anecdotes and Observations, Reflections and Critical Remarks' from The Remains of Robert Bloomfield. Author of The Farmer's Boy, Rural Tales &c., 2 vols (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824), vol. II, pp. 51-122. Robert Bloomfield, 'The Bird and Insects' Post-Office' from The Remains of Robert Bloomfield. Author of The Farmer's Boy, Rural Tales &c., 2 vols (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824) vol. II, pp. 123-66. Nathaniel Bloomfield, 'The Culprit' from An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad . . . and Other Poems (London: Hurst, Vernor and Hood, 1803), pp. 43-59. Nathaniel Bloomfield, 'Elegy on the Enclosure of Honington Green' from An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad . . . and Other Poems (London: Hurst, Vernor and Hood, 1803), pp. 29-40. Nathaniel Bloomfield, 'Essay on War' from An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad . . . and Other Poems (London: Hurst, Vernor and Hood, 1803), pp. 1-25. Nathaniel Bloomfield , 'Love's Triumph' from An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad . . . and Other Poems (London: Hurst, Vernor and Hood, 1803), pp. 71-81. [George Bloomfield], 'Friendly Hints Affectionately Addressed, by an Old Man to the Labouring Poor of Suffolk and Norfolk' (T. D. Dutton, Printer and Bookseller, Bury, n.d). [George Bloomfield], <ref target="../HTML/thetford.html">Thetford Chalybeate Spa. A Poem by a Parishioner of St. Peter's</ref> (Cambridge: printed by J. Smith; and sold by the booksellers in Thetford, Bury, and Norwich, 1820).