Walter Bloomfield: Memoir of Robert Bloomfield 1891

Bloomfield, Walter

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Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823), poet, was born at Hornington, Suffolk, on 3 December 1766. While employed as a shoemaker in London, he published the poem The farmer's boy (1800), which received great acclaim and launched his career as a poet. Bloomfield was employed as an under-sealer in the Seal Office, 1802-1803, but faced growing financial difficulties in his later years. He died in poverty in Shefford, Bedfordshire, on 19 August 1823. A collected edition of his poems was publishe...

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Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823

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Robert Bloomfield, minor English poet, best known for his long poem The Farmer's Boy. His poetry was championed by Robert Southey, and his themes of nature and the common man initially won the approval of Wordsworth and Coleridge -- but Lord Byron and Charles Lamb were less than charitable in their assessments of his poetic worth. From the description of Robert Bloomfield manuscript material : 4 items, 1802-1808 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76944990 From th...