<emph>The Banks of Wye</emph>

<emph>The Banks of Wye</emph> 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 BanksOfWyeManuscripts Romantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of Maryland College Park, MD October 10, 2010

Material from the Romantic Circles Website may not be downloaded, reproduced or disseminated in any manner without authorization unless it is for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, and/or classroom use as provided by the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended.

Unless otherwise noted, all Pages and Resources mounted on Romantic Circles are copyrighted by the author/editor and may be shared only in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Except as expressly permitted by this statement, redistribution or republication in any medium requires express prior written consent from the author/editors and advance notification of Romantic Circles. Any requests for authorization should be forwarded to Romantic Circles:>

Romantic Circlesc/o Professor Neil FraistatDepartment of EnglishUniversity of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742fraistat@umd.edu

By their use of these texts and images, users agree to the following conditions: These texts and images may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior written permission from Romantic Circles. These texts and images may not be re-distributed in any forms other than their current ones.

Users are not permitted to download these texts and images in order to mount them on their own servers. It is not in our interest or that of our users to have uncontrolled subsets of our holdings available elsewhere on the Internet. We make corrections and additions to our edited resources on a continual basis, and we want the most current text to be the only one generally available to all Internet users. Institutions can, of course, make a link to the copies at Romantic Circles, subject to our conditions of use.

Tim Fulford <emph>Banks of Wye</emph> Manuscripts Robert Bloomfield - <emph>The Banks of the Wye</emph> A Romantic Circles Electronic Edition Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) Tim Fulford Romantic Circles University of Maryland

All quotation marks and apostrophes have been changed: " for "," for ", ' for ', and ' for '.

Any dashes occurring in line breaks have been removed.

Because of web browser variability, all hyphens have been typed on the U.S. keyboard

Dashes have been rendered as —

Bloomfield's spelling has not been regularized.

Writing in other hands appearing on these manuscripts has been indicated as such, the content recorded in brackets.

& has been used for the ampersand sign.

£ has been used for £, the pound sign

All other characters, those with accents, non-breaking spaces, etc., have been encoded in HTML entity decimals.

NINES categories for Genre and Material Form at http://www.performantsoftware.com/nines_wiki/index.php/Submitting_RDF#.3Cnines:genre.3E on 2009-02-26 Architecture Artifacts Bibliography Collection Criticism Letters Drama Life Writing Politics Folklore Ephemera Fiction History Leisure Manuscript Reference Works Humor Education Music nonfiction Paratext Perodical Philosphy Photograph Citation Family Life Poetry Religion Review Visual Art Translation Travel Book History Law Romantic Circles people: Bloomfield Banks of the Wye Romantic Circles places: Bloomfield Banks of the Wye Changed by Jason Whittaker TEI Encoding, first pass, all files

Banks of Wye Manuscripts

The British Library holds four manuscripts stemming from Bloomfield’s Wye tour:

BL Add. MS 28265, ff. 47-96. The Banks of Wye. / a / Poetical Journal. Aug. 17. 1807. 49ff. 32 cm x 20 cm. Watermark: L M MUNN / KENT / 1807. Working draft, in black ink and in pencil. Many passages extensively reworked. Ends with a draft of the interpolated poem to Morris of Piercefield and with notes towards the concluding book of the poem. BL Add. MS 28265, ff. 97-162. The Banks of Wye. / a / Poetical Journal / of a Tour through the Counties of Monmouth, Brecknock, Hereford, & Gloucester, / in the summer of 1807. / In Four Books / By &c / Printed for Vernor, Hood, &c &cc / and the author. 65ff. 32 cm x 20 cm. Watermark: Medallion of Britannia surmounted by a crown (ff. 97-134); W. Tucker / 1808 (ff. 135-62). Fair copy, in black ink with pencil emendations, except ff. 103-05 and 158-63 in pencil; ff. 103-05 have been misplaced when the MS leaves were gathered for binding: consisting of the concluding lines of the poem, they should follow f. 163. Ends with Bloomfield’s note to himself, after the poem’s final line: ‘Well done little Snob!’ BL Add. MS 28265, ff. 163-213. The Banks of Wye. / a / Poetical Journal of a Ten Days Tour / Through the Counties / of Monmouth, Brecknock, Hereford, & Gloucester. / In the Summer of 1807. / In Four Books. 50ff. 32 cm x 20 cm. Watermarks: Medallion of Britannia surmounted by a crown; other folios FELLOWS / 1807. Printer’s copy, in black ink with emendations in the same ink. In another hand on top right of f. 165 ‘3000 foolscapedvo’. Contains Bloomfield’s notes and a key for relating the footnotes to the text. Paginated in Bloomfield’s hand: pp. 1-48 (Books I-III), pp. 1-17 (Book IV), followed by 8 unpaginated folios. BL Add. MS 28267. JOURNAL / of A / TEN DAYS TOUR / FROM ULEY in GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BY WAY / of ROSS; Down the RIVER WYE to CHEPSTOW; / ABERGAVENNY, BRECON, HEREFORD, MALVERN. / &c. &c. / Augst 1807. 59ff. 38 cm x 24 cm. Watermarks: none. Sketchbook. Bloomfield’s prose journal, containing sketches, sketch-maps in his hand, and tipped-in engraved maps.