An Essay on War, in Blank Verse

An Essay on War, in Blank Verse is an 1803 poetry collection by Nathaniel Bloomfield, the English rural poet and elder brother of the better-known peasant-poet Robert Bloomfield. Written from the standpoint of a working countryman, the verse reflects on war and rural life in the plain manner of the laboring-class poets who found readers in the early nineteenth century. The book is a sample of English peasant-poet literature. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.