Book 1

BOOK I
CONTENTS OF BOOK I.

The Vale of Uley.––Forest of Dean.––Ross.––Wilton Castle.––Goodrich Castle.––Courtfield,
Welch Bicknor, Coldwell.––Gleaner's Song.––Coldwell Rocks.––Symmon's Yat.––Great Doward.––New
Wier.––Arthur's Hall.

Book III

The Banks of Wye; A Poem. In Four Books, 1811, 1813, 1823.


(1)

The text of the first edition of The Banks of Wye; A Poem. In Four Books (London:
Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1811), collated with the corrected second edition (London,

Book II

The Banks of Wye; A Poem. In Four Books, 1811, 1813, 1823.


(1)

The text of the first edition of The Banks of Wye; A Poem. In Four Books (London:
Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1811), collated with the corrected second edition (London,

About this Volume

About This Edition

Admired by Wordsworth and Southey, called by Clare 'the greatest Pastoral Poet England
ever gave birth too’, Robert Bloomfield was one of the bestselling poets of the nineteenth
century. A labouring-class writer famed for his rural verse, Bloomfield was not only

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