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:
ON SEEING THE LAUNCH OF THE BOYNE (1791)
ON SEEING THE LAUNCH OF THE BOYNE (1791)
(1)
Sent by Bloomfield in a letter to his father-in-law, Joseph Church , who worked in
Woolwich shipyard. Letter 4, 28 December [17]91.
Woolwich shipyard. Letter 4, 28 December [17]91.
THE SOLDIER’S RETURN (1786)
THE SOLDIER’S RETURN (1786)
(1)
Lines 13–21 from this piece were included by Capel Lofft in the Supplement to the
2nd edn of The Farmer’s Boy, where he remarked: ‘I think every Reader will be of opinion
2nd edn of The Farmer’s Boy, where he remarked: ‘I think every Reader will be of opinion