Collected Poems, 1800-1822

by Robert Bloomfield

Excerpt from Collected Poems, 1800-1822: Facsimile Reproductions, With an IntroductionClare. Robert Southey, with the express purpose of fur thering Bloomfield's career, reviewed the poem warmly. A host of minor literary figures responded by bringing him presentation copies of then works as his popularity grew; thus despite his complaints about time lost, the shoemaker's intellectual and literary interests became more extensive. His letters and the memoranda printed in The Remains (1824) reveal him studying a range of subjects from the activities of the garden spider to the history and construction of aeolian harps. The harps held such fascination for him that he wrote a study of them (1808) and eventually managed a small income selling harps of his own manufacture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

704 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Robert Bloomfield 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.