Volume 1

Poems / [Robert Bloomfield].

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Poems / [Robert Bloomfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Eight years have elapsed since the first publica- tion of ' The Farmer's Boy.' It now assumes, toge- ther with the later Poems, a new form ; and my friend Mr. LofFt, to whom I am so obviously aim so materially indebted for success, with great libe- rality suggests, that a general publication of the works in connection seems to require something of a general Preface adapted to the occasion, and coming from myself. But as all that I have writ- ten will now be comprised in two volumes, some further remarks will be found in my second volume respecting the Tales and Ballads. What is here said relates to the Farmer's Boy alone. The plain, candid memoir, which has hitherto preceded the Poem, as given by my Brother to Mr. Lofft, has interested thousands in my favour, and spared me those painful feelings which must VOL. !. a