Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; The Farmer's Boy, The Prelude and the poetics of rural life; The romantic ballad and labouring-class culture; The romantic lyric and the lyric of labour; Betwixt and between patrons, publishers and readers; 'History from below' on The Banks of [the] Wye; Community labour and poetry in May Day with the Muses; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Simon J. White is a Lecturer in Romantic Literature in the Department of English at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Reviews

'... an authoritative and illuminating account of a Bloomfield intricately caught up with the culture of his time, its tastes, its prejudices and its politics.' BARS Bulletin and Review