(in blank verse, 1803);
Laura, or an Anthology of Sonnets
(1814). He also edited Milton's
Paradise Lost
. In November, 1798, Lofft read the manuscript of
The Farmer's Boy
, written by Robert Bloomfield in a London garret, where he worked as a shoemaker. Interested in the poem and the Suffolk poet, Lofft had it published in 1800, with cuts by Bewick, and a preface by himself.