Question

why has the blackbird fled to another retreat? Where did it fly away​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Poplar-Field’ has always held its place as one of Cowper’s best-known poems. It was first published in January 1785 in the reputable and widely-read pages of The Gentleman’s Magazine, where his ‘Epitaph on a Hare’ had appeared the previous month. Cowper at this time was, he told William Unwin, in the habit of submitting poems in pairs: ‘As fast as Nichols prints off the poems I send him, I send him new ones. My remittance usually consists of two, and he publishes one of them at a time.’1 Cowper regarded the prestigious Gentleman’s Magazine as ‘a respectable repository for small matters, which when entrusted to a Newspaper, can expect but the duration of a day.’ ‘The Poplar-Field’ did indeed last more than a day.2 The European Magazine picked it up in 1789, and The Gentleman’s Magazine reprinted it after Cowper’s death.3 It was first included in Cowper’s collected Poems in 1800, in a version that incorporated revisions Cowper made for his Entry Book and for the Manners Sutton Collection manuscript