In the wake of the enormous popularity of Robert Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy (1800) and Rural Tales (1802), a collection of poems by his brother Nathaniel (1759-1831) was published in 1803. Entitled An Essay on War: In Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad, it was published by Robert’s publisher, Vernor and Hood, assisted by Capel … Continue reading Nathaniel Bloomfield, Elegy on the Enclosure of Honington Green