TO IMMAGINATION (1800)
Editorial Introduction
A NEIGHBOURLY RESOLUTION (1800)
A NEIGHBOURLY RESOLUTION (1800)
(1)
Written in 1800. See Letter 33. Published in The Monthly Mirror, 10 (July 1800), 48–49.
In Letter 94, 2 September 1802, Bloomfield wrote of it, ‘I own that I have resolutely
In Letter 94, 2 September 1802, Bloomfield wrote of it, ‘I own that I have resolutely
TO HIS MOTHER, with a copy of Farmer’s Boy (1800)
TO HIS MOTHER WITH A COPY OF ‘THE FARMER’S BOY’
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Winter
ARGUMENT.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Autumn
ARGUMENT.
Acorns. Hogs in the wood. Wheat-sowing. The Church. Village girls. The mad girl. the
bird-boy’s hut. Disappointments; reflections, &c. Euston-hall. Fox-hunting. Old Trouncer,
Long nights. A welcome to Winter.
AUTUMN.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Summer
ARGUMENT.
Turnip sowing. Wheat ripening. Sparrows. Insects.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Spring
ARGUMENT.
Invocation, &c. Seed time. Harrowing. Morning walks. Milking. The Dairy. Suffolk Cheese.
Spring coming forth. Sheep fond of changing. Lambs at play. The Butcher, &c.
SPRING.
I.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
Editorial Introduction
ELEGY (1789)
ELEGY (1789)
(1)
Published in Remains, where Bloomfield’s note is quoted:] ‘The following lines, written
in 1789, on the death of my half-brother, Isaac Glover, who died at the age of sixteen,
in 1789, on the death of my half-brother, Isaac Glover, who died at the age of sixteen,
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
Prefaces and Appendices
THE
FARMER’S BOY;
A RURAL POEM,
IN FOUR BOOKS
BY
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
‘A Shepherd’s Boy....he seeks no better name.’
With Ornaments engraved in Wood by Anderson.
LONDON: