ABSTRACT Even as the recovery of Robert Bloomfield’s career has accelerated over the past decade, a fully-textured understanding of his contemporary influence remains surprisingly elusive. This article offers a new perspective on the scope of that influence by looking at a specific group of contemporary accounts: memorial poems, tribute poems, and elegies. While the 1824 volume The Remains of Robert Bloomfield contained fifteen such poems, all told there are at least thirty-five others that fall into these categories, though several pre-date Bloomfield's death. This essay identifies several poetic groupings: appreciations and effusions; devotional poems; pastoral elegies; and protest poems about England’s neglect of its poets. Although Bloomfield’s reputation for piety, simplicity, and moral decency is a dominant thread in this body of work, I also identify several poems in which his seemingly spotless public persona makes him usable as a kind of token to be flexibly employed in the service of a grievance or cause. The essay looks in detail at two writers who use Bloomfield in this way: the English temperance writer Jabez Inwards and the American Joseph Dennie, editor of an important early American periodical, the Port Folio, that aggressively advocated for Federalism as against Jeffersonian democracy.

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对罗伯特·布卢姆菲尔德的 19 世纪诗歌致敬和挽歌

摘要 尽管罗伯特·布卢姆菲尔德 (Robert Bloomfield) 的职业生涯在过去十年中加速复苏，但对其当代影响力的全面理解仍然令人惊讶地难以捉摸。本文通过查看一组特定的当代帐户，对这种影响的范围提供了一个新的视角：纪念诗、致敬诗和挽歌。虽然 1824 年出版的《罗伯特·布卢姆菲尔德的遗骸》包含 15 首这样的诗，但所有人都说至少还有 35 首属于这些类别，尽管有几首早于布卢姆菲尔德的死。这篇文章确定了几个诗意的分组：欣赏和流露；虔诚的诗歌；田园挽歌；并抗议有关英格兰忽视其诗人的诗歌。尽管布卢姆菲尔德以虔诚、朴素和道德高尚而著称，但在这部作品中占据主导地位，我还列举了几首诗，在这些诗中，他看似一尘不染的公众形象使他可以用作一种象征，可以灵活地用于为不满或事业服务。这篇文章详细介绍了以这种方式使用布卢姆菲尔德的两位作家：英国禁酒作家 Jabez Inwards 和美国早期重要期刊 Port Folio 的编辑约瑟夫·丹尼 (Joseph Dennie)，该期刊积极倡导联邦制，反对杰斐逊式民主。