English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
, lines 765-798, and
notes
.)
Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) achieved a success with his
Farmer's Boy
(1800), of which thousands of copies were sold in England, and which was translated into French and Italian. But however creditable the lines may have been to the author, Byron's opinion of the merits of the poet was the true one. Bloomfield's subsequent volumes, of which there were seven, were inferior to
The Farmer's Boy
.
Good Tidings, or News from the Farm