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THE FARMER'S BOY; a Rural Poem.
By ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
" In the author of this sweetly simple and interesting poem,
we are presented with another striking illustration of
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mark, " meta, natchur, non fit." This favourite child of ge-
nius and the muse, who, with no adscititious advantages of
birth, fortune, education, or connection, has produced a poem
which may be read with delight, even after Thomson, and in
some respects may challenge a cnmpetition with the Seasons .
of that author." Monthly Miruir, March 1800.
" To deseillbe the various OCClpations of a farmer's bov, in
the four seasons of the, year, is the main design of the poem;
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of poetical attention, the very ingenious writer has contrived
to embellish their rusticity and meanness w th a harmony of
numbers, which could not be expected from an uncultivated
mind ; to soften the harshness of minute detail, by blending
apt and picturesque descriptions; and to enliven the whole by
strokes of poetic imagery, and unaffected sentiment. The poen&
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genius " Monthly Review, vol. 33, p. 57.
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are touched with the band of a master. His versification oc-
casionally displays an energy at d harmouy which might deco-
rate even the paps of a Darwin.
". The geueral characteristies of his style, however, are
sweetness and ease. in short, I have no hesitation in declaring,
that I think it, as a rural and descriptive poem, superior to shy
production since the days of Thomson.
" It wants no refe-eitth to its author's undecayed poverty ro
r ender its exit Itenaies the nree striking; they are such aswould
confer durable haute en the !lin and most polished poet in the
kingdom."
Extract of a Letter from Dr. Drake to the Editor.
Rural Tales, Balla-Is, and Stings. By Robert Bloomfield,
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" We are, here called away front ow abstruser ettislies by
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field's first poem, the Farmer's Boy, we SAW and commended
the eviclewe of an orghatl g nests, we'l deserving of encou-
ragement and cultivation. The public has agreed with us, and
five editions of that work exhibit the mast unequirocal attesta-
tion of general favour.
" With the Farmer's Boy we were highly pleased, because
it spewed, in the twat striking moaner, the natural move-
ments of an ingenious mind ; and evinced how par:et-eh- new
a sub ea, apparently pre-occupied, may be nride byliCirtg it
in a different view. But we hesitate not to declare ettraeNes
still more satisfied with the present volume. The au tfir here
relates tales; in themselves phasing, in thelanguage of bOad t.
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fall of pleasing ideas, in a style exaaly suited to their thrpres•
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of calling public attention to the unlettered muse of thissocaell
Burns.
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