The Banks of Wye; A Poem. [Bound with] May Day with the Muses.

BLOOMFIELD, Robert

Published by London: Printed for the Author; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe., First edition and London: Printed for the Author; and for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy:1822, Second edition,, 1811

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2 books in 1, 12mo, [viii, 134pp] + [viii, 100pp], engraved frontispiece and 3 full-page engraved plates to first book, engraved decorations to second volume, marbled endpapers and fore-edges, contemp. full patterned calf with triple gilt ruled borders, gilt floral decorated spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title and author labels, lightly rubbed on extremities. A VG+ clean copy. Robert Bloomfield (1766 1823) was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. Born in rural Suffolk but thought too frail to work on the land, Bloomfield was sent to London at age 15 to be apprenticed to a shoemaker. His poem The Farmer s Boy (1800), written in couplets, owed its popularity to its blend of late 18th-century pastoralism with an early Romantic feeling for nature. The works that followed, from Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs (1802) to The Banks of Wye (1811) - (a poetic journal of a walking tour taken in the footsteps of Wordsworth, 1811), were also successful. Seller Inventory # 2088

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Title: The Banks of Wye; A Poem. [Bound with] May ...

Publisher: London: Printed for the Author; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe., First edition and London: Printed for the Author; and for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy:1822, Second edition,

Publication Date: 1811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition