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The farmer's boy by Robert Bloomfield : a parallel text edition by Peter Cochran; with the Thresher's Labour by Stephen Duck and the Woman's Labour by Mary Collier is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Robert Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy was the most successful poem of the “Romantic” period, selling 100,000 copies between 1800 and 1830. However, what was marketed was not the poem which the working-class Bloomfield had written, but a highly polished, politely spelled and punctuated re-write, prepared by the local squire, who deliberately covered up the fact that Bloomfield had written originally for a Suffolk voice, with Suffolk vowel-sounds and Suffolk idioms. This edition prints Bloomfield’s
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- Author
- Peter Cochran; with the Thresher's Labour by Stephen Duck and the Woman's Labour by Mary Collier
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781443855969
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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