Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.

Another of them "The Miller's Maid" was made an opera by John Davy (1763–1824) in 1804 and formed the basis for a two-act melodrama by John Faucit Saville (1807–1855) in 1821. In 2000 the Robert Bloomfield Society was founded to promote awareness of his life and work and has encouraged scholarly publications relating to him. His father was a tailor and died of smallpox when the son was a year old.