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A VILLAGE GIRL (1786)

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This poem was first included in the preface to The Farmer’s Boy (with the title ‘The
Milk-Maid. On the First of May’) as a specimen of Bloomfield’s earliest attempts at

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Preface

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CONTENTS

Preface

Preface

Chronology of Bloomfield’s Life

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