Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823 / 2008-06-09 00:00:00
EBOOK WILD FLOWERS ***
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Charles Bidwell and Distributed Proofreaders
[Illustration]
WILD FLOWERS
OR,
PASTORAL AND LOCAL POETRY.
By ROBERT BLOOMFIELD
Author of "The Farmer's Boy" and "Rural Tales".
LONDON:
Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry;
and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row.
1806.
WRIGHT, Printer, No. 32, St. John's Square, Clerkenwall.
PREFACE
A man of the first eminence, in whose day (fortunately perhaps for me) I
was not destined to appear before the public, or to abide the Herculean
crab-tree of his criticism, Dr. Johnson, has said, in his preface to
Shakspeare, that--"Nothing can please many, and please long, but just
representations of general nature." My representations of nature, whatever
may be said of their _justness_, are not _general_, unless we admit, what
I suspect to be the case, that nature in a village is very much like
nature every where else. It will be observed that all my pictures are from
humble life, and most of my heroines servant maids.
Read more
Parts:
1
2
3
4