← Table of contents
The village labourer, 1760-1832

Note 145 — Chapter VI · THE LABOURER IN 1795

Reading edition

Capel Lofft (1751–1824); follower of Fox; writer of poems and translations from Virgil and Petrarch; patron of Robert Bloomfield, author of Farmer’s Boy. Called by Boswell ‘This little David of popular spirit.’

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings