Robert Bloomfield, romanticism and the poetry of community

Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century.

Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his poetry and its contexts.

Simon J. White considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets.

For example, her argues that Wordsworth's poetics of rural life was in some respects a response to Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy.