Author: Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)

Text type: Verse

Date of composition: 1800

Editions: 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1808, 1810, 1811, 1814, 1815, 1820, 1822, 1827, 1828, 1835, 1858, 1871, 1875, 1986, 1987, 2005, 2009, 2010.

Source text:

Bloomfield, Robert (1806). Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs. The Farmer’s Boy; A Rural Poem. London: Printed for Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Poultry; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme.

e-text:

          Access and transcription: November 2012

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          Number of words: 22,250

          Dialect represented: Suffolk    

          Produced by Maria Victoria Pascual Hernández

          Revised by María F. García-Bermejo Giner