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Abbreviations and Sources1809The Poems of Robert Bloomfield, 2 vols. (London: the Author, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1809).1827Poems by Robert Bloomfield, 3 vols. (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827).Add. MSBritish Library Manuscript designation.Banks of WyeThe Banks of Wye; a Poem in Four Books (London: the Author, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811).BCBB.C. Bloomfield, 'The Publication of The Farmer's Boy, by Robert Bloomfield', The Library, 6th series 15.2 (1993), 75–94.BLBritish Library.BrayleyE. W. Brayley, Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire; illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed, a Memoir of the Poet's Life (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806).Farmer's BoyThe Farmer's Boy: a Rural Poem 1st edn. (London: Vernor and Hood, 1800).Good TidingsGood Tidings; or, News from the Farm (London: Vernor and Hood, 1804).HartW.H. Hart (ed.), Selections from the Correspondence of Robert Bloomfield (London: Spottiswoode, 1870).Harvard MS EngThe two manuscripts (776/776.1) of The Farmer's Boy, in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.Hazelwood-HallHazelwood-Hall: a Village Drama in Three Acts (London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823).Little DavyThe History of Little Davy's New Hat (London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1815).May DayMayDay with the Muses (London: the Author, 1822).PhillipsMary Phillips, 'A Poet at Shefford', Bedfordshire Magazine, 57 (Summer 1961), 8–14. RemainsThe Remains of Robert Bloomfield, [ed. by Joseph Weston], 2 vols. (London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1824).Rural TalesRural Tales, Ballads and Songs, quarto edn. (London: Vernor and Hood, 1802).WickettWilliam Wickett and Nicholas Duval, The Farmer's Boy: The Story of a Suffolk Poet, Robert Bloomfield, His Life and Poems 1766–1823 (Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1971).Wild FlowersWild Flowers; or Pastoral and Local Poetry, quarto edn. (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806).WorksThe Works of Robert Bloomfield (London and New York: Routledge, undated, late nineteenth century, various editions).