The "Other" Robert Bloomfield: "To Immagination" (1800) and the Quest for an Authentic Poetic Voice
The vital quality for Bloomfield was the fusion of nature with the people who live in harmony with it, and authentic depictions based on one's own perceptions, that effectively provide the grounds of experience. [...]the deceptive simplicity of his return from the fairyland of Vauxhall Gardens...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Studies in romanticism 2016-07, Vol.55 (2), p.239-256 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The vital quality for Bloomfield was the fusion of nature with the people who live in harmony with it, and authentic depictions based on one's own perceptions, that effectively provide the grounds of experience. [...]the deceptive simplicity of his return from the fairyland of Vauxhall Gardens in fact contains a shrewd understanding of the aestheticization of nature and Bloomfield's preference for what he saw as the reality, described with microscopic appeal to his senses and finally his emotions: |
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ISSN: | 0039-3762 2330-118X 2330-118X |
DOI: | 10.1353/srm.2016.0022 |