Bloomfield, Robert

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 303 words | Copyright

Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823), worked as a farm labourer, then as a shoemaker in London, enduring extreme poverty. He is remembered as the author of The Farmer's Boy (1800), illustrated with engravings by Bewick, which related the life of Giles, an orphan farm labourer, throughout the seasons.

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