The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield

A Parallel Text Edition
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5365-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten

Robert Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy was the most successful poem of the “Romantic” period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with Suffolk vowel-sounds and Suffolk idioms.

This edition prints Bloomfield’s first manuscript, and then has a parallel text of the “polished” first edition, opposite Bloomfield’s second manuscript, made for his own use and for that of his family, in which he changes the poem back to the form in which he wrote, heard, and read it.

Thus Bloomfield’s intentions appear for the first time, edited in detail from the original manuscripts at Harvard.

Also included are the two eighteenth-century poems The Thresher’s Labour by Stephen Duck, and The Woman’s Labour by Mary Collier.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cochran, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Über Autor(innen)

Cochran, Peter
Peter Cochran was educated at Derby Road Primary School and Northgate Grammar School for Boys, Ipswich, Suffolk. He dropped his Suffolk accent quickly upon going up to Cambridge. He is best known as a Byron scholar, and is responsible for the edition of Byron on the website of the International Association of Byron Societies. He has published seventeen books on Byron, and the study Small-Screen Shakespeare with CSP.

Peter Cochran was educated at Derby Road Primary School and Northgate Grammar School for Boys, Ipswich, Suffolk. He dropped his Suffolk accent quickly upon going up to Cambridge. He is best known as a Byron scholar, and is responsible for the edition of Byron on the website of the International Association of Byron Societies. He has published seventeen books on Byron, and the study Small-Screen Shakespeare with CSP.