Includes The Farmers Boy (1800); Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs (1802); Good Tidings; or, News from the Farm (1804); Wild Flowers (1806); Nature's Music (1808); The Banks of Wye (1811); The History of Little Davy's New Hat (1815); May-Day with the Muses (1822); The Remains of Robert Bloomfield (1824), The Birds and Insects Post Office (1824).
Here we present anti-enclosure and anti-war poetry by Bloomfield’s brother Nathaniel and biographical pieces by his brother George that vividly depict the desperate poverty of nineteenth-century rural labourers.
Here we also present responses to Bloomfield by John Clare, Robert Southey and fellow labouring-class poet Henry Kirke White as well as a series of essays by recent critics and enthusiasts.