Robert Bloomfield, was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He lost his father when he was a year old, and received the rudiments of education from his mother, who kept the village school. Apprenticed at the age of eleven to a farmer, he was too small and frail for field labour, and four years later he came to London to work for a shoemaker under an elder brother, enduring extreme poverty.

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  • Robert Bloomfield, was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He lost his father when he was a year old, and received the rudiments of education from his mother, who kept the village school. Apprenticed at the age of eleven to a farmer, he was too small and frail for field labour, and four years later he came to London to work for a shoemaker under an elder brother, enduring extreme poverty. The poem that made his reputation, The Farmer's Boy, was written in a garret in Bell Alley where half a dozen other men were at work, and the finished lines he carried in his head until there was time to write them down. The manuscript, declined by several publishers, fell into the hands of Capel Lofft, a Suffolk squire of literary tastes, who arranged for its publication with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick in 1800. The success of the poem was remarkable, over 25,000 copies being sold in the next two years. Bloomfield's reputation was increased by the appearance of his Rural Tales, News from the Farm, Wild Flowers and The Banks of the Wye. Influential friends attempted to provide for Bloomfield, but ill-health and possibly faults of temperament prevented the success of these efforts. An attempt to carry on business as a bookseller failed, his health gave way, his reason was threatened, and he died in great poverty at Shefford, Bedfordshire, in 1823. (Where he now has a Middle school named in his honour. ) His Remains in Poetry and Verse appeared in 1824. Bloomfield's poetry is smooth, correct, and characterised by taste and good feeling, but lacks fire and energy. Of amiable and simple character, he was lacking in self-reliance.
  • Robert Bloomfield, poète anglais, né dans le comté de Suffolk en 1766, mort en 1823. Il était fils d'un tailleur et exerça longtemps lui-même à Londres le métier de cordonnier. Au milieu des travaux de son état, il trouvait le temps de se livrer à la poésie, et il composa vers 1798 un poème qui eut beaucoup de succès, le Garçon de ferme, dans lequel il décrit les travaux de la campagne. On a en outre de lui un recueil de contes, ballades et chansons champêtres, 1802.
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  • Robert Bloomfield, was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He lost his father when he was a year old, and received the rudiments of education from his mother, who kept the village school. Apprenticed at the age of eleven to a farmer, he was too small and frail for field labour, and four years later he came to London to work for a shoemaker under an elder brother, enduring extreme poverty.
  • Robert Bloomfield, poète anglais, né dans le comté de Suffolk en 1766, mort en 1823. Il était fils d'un tailleur et exerça longtemps lui-même à Londres le métier de cordonnier. Au milieu des travaux de son état, il trouvait le temps de se livrer à la poésie, et il composa vers 1798 un poème qui eut beaucoup de succès, le Garçon de ferme, dans lequel il décrit les travaux de la campagne. On a en outre de lui un recueil de contes, ballades et chansons champêtres, 1802.
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