This four-book poem revolutionised the English Georgic by depicting rural life from below, from the perspective of ‘Giles’, a child labourer. It was completed in manuscript in 1798 and published, as emended by the well-meaning but interfering patron and editor Capel Lofft, in 1800 (with the London bookselling firm Vernor and Hood). It was a … Continue reading The Farmer’s Boy (1800)