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  • The Talk of the Tap-Room: Bloomfield, Politics and Popular Culture

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    Denney, Peter
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    Denney, Peter
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This article takes as its point of departure Bloomfield's repeated and insistent claim that he was a poet, not a politician. Drawing on the fascinating, recently published correspondence of Bloomfield and his circle, it examines how the dissociation of poetry and politics in the post-revolutionary decades affected the poet's public and private identities. In the first instance, the article explores how the ideology of natural genius exerted pressure on Bloomfield and other labouring-class poets to think about poetry as a cultural form which was incompatible with the public sphere of politics, especially the combative world ...
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    This article takes as its point of departure Bloomfield's repeated and insistent claim that he was a poet, not a politician. Drawing on the fascinating, recently published correspondence of Bloomfield and his circle, it examines how the dissociation of poetry and politics in the post-revolutionary decades affected the poet's public and private identities. In the first instance, the article explores how the ideology of natural genius exerted pressure on Bloomfield and other labouring-class poets to think about poetry as a cultural form which was incompatible with the public sphere of politics, especially the combative world of artisan radicalism. But the article also shows that the polarisation of political culture in the aftermath of the French Revolution debate had the effect of politicising even the most private aspects of Bloomfield's life and literary productions. Much to the poet's profound vexation, his public persona was appropriated by radicals, liberals and loyalists alike, depriving him of the privacy the theory of natural genius assumed he should embrace.
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    Journal Title
    Romantic Circles Praxis Series
    Volume
    2012
    Issue
    January
    Publisher URI
    http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/bloomfield/HTML/praxis.2011.denney.html
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2012. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website or contact the author.
    Subject
    British and Irish Literature
    British History
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/46124
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