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| | §28. Robert Bloomfield; John Clare. V. Lesser Poets, 17901837. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Nor is there quite so much dissimilarity between the poetic value of their work, if the poems of Clare published during his lifetime be taken alone, as readers of the high, and not ill-deserved, praise sometimes bestowed on the younger poet might expect. |
 | | Charles Lamb, who never went wrong without good cause, and who, on no occasion, was an unamiably superior critic, thought that Bloomfield had a poor mind, and there is certainly nothing in his work to indicate that it was a rich one, poetically speaking. |
 | | As was certain to be the case in 1820, as compared with 1800, the stock couplet versification and diction of the eighteenth century are replaced by varied metres, a more natural vocabulary, and a general attempt at lyrical quality. |
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