Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfieldwas an English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 December 1766
boast hence horrors nor peace private proud seen thou worst
Proud crested Fiend, the World's worst foe, Ambition, canst thou boast one deed, hence no unsightly horrors flow, Nor private peace is seen to bleed?