Download or read book The Farmer's Boy, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Farmer's Boy, and Other Poems Robert Bloomfield was born at Honington, near Bury, in the county of Suffolk, on the 3d of December, 1776. His mother being left a widow, with a family of six children, and in straitened circumstances, Robert had no other instruction during his boyhood except what he received from herself, and at the age of eleven, he was obliged to enter into the service of a neighbouring farmer. Here, however, it was found that his small and delicate frame was unfitted for any kind of agricultural labour; upon which he was sent to London, to learn the trade of a shoemaker, from his elder brother, who was settled there as a journeyman. But while he was employed at his work-stall, or in running errands for the workmen, the aspiring boy showed the innate force of his genius. It was in a garret in London, and amid the incessant hammering of six or seven workmen, that he composed his Farmer's Boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.