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See also:BLOOMFIELD, See also:ROBERT (1766-1823) , See also:English poet, was See also:born of humble parents at the See also:village of Honington, See also:Suffolk, on the 3rd of See also:December 1766. He was apprenticed at the See also:age of eleven to a See also:farmer, but he was too small and frail for See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field labour, and four years later he came to See also:London to See also:work for a shoemaker. The poem that made his reputation, The Farmer's Boy, was written in a See also:garret in See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell See also:Alley. The See also:manuscript, declined by several publishers, See also:fell into the hands of See also:Capell See also:Lofft, who arranged for its publication with woodcuts by See also:Bewick in 1800. The success of the poem was remarkable, over 25,000 copies being sold in the next two years. His reputation was increased by the See also:appearance of his Rural Tales (1802), See also:News from the See also:Farm (1804), See also:Wild See also:Flowers (18o6) and The See also:Banks of the Wye (1811). Influential See also:friends attempted to provide for Bloomfield, but See also:ill-See also:health and possibly faults of temperament prevented the success of these efforts, and the poet died in poverty at Shefford, See also:Bedfordshire, on the 19th of See also:August 1823. His Remains in See also:Poetry and See also:Verse appeared in 1824.
End of Article: BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT (1766-1823)
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