PREFACE In the summer of 1807, a party of my good friends in Gloucestershire proposed to themselves a short excursion down the Wye, and through part of South Wales. While this plan was in agitation, the lines which I had composed on “Shooter’s Hill,” during ill health, and inserted in my last volume,obtained their particular … Continue reading The Banks of Wye: an Illustrated Text of Robert Bloomfield’s 1811 Tourist Poem