The Complete Poetical Works: Volume IGeorge Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries as a major poet. The leading reviewer of the day, Francis Jeffrey, paid tribute to his powerful originality. Byron pronounced him 'Though Nature's sternest Painter, yet the best'. Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, who declared that she would have married him, were among his many admirers. In our own time both critics and poets have praised his penetrating insights into human motivation, his realism, and his unique use of landscape as a setting for his poems and verse tales; and he is well known as the author of Peter Grimes, on which Benjamin Britten based his opera. Yet there has not been a collected edition of his verse since A.W. Ward's, some eighty years ago. The present edition draws on much recently discovered manuscript material in this country and in the USA, including a finished manuscript, with proofs, of Tales of the Hall, and manuscripts of four unpublished tales and of a number of shorter poems. Close attention has been paid to the evolution of the text from the rough pencil drafts in Crabbe's notebooks to the final version on the printed page. An extensive Commentary relates both to the literary context and to Crabbe's many observations on the social scene of his day. |
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... fame your youthful heart betray , Pursue fair fame , but in a glorious way , Nor in the idle scenes of Fancy's painting stray . 460 465 Of all the good that mortal men pursue , The Muse has least to give , and gives to few ; Like some ...
... fame your youthful heart betray , Pursue fair fame , but in a glorious way , Nor in the idle scenes of Fancy's painting stray . 460 465 Of all the good that mortal men pursue , The Muse has least to give , and gives to few ; Like some ...
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... Fame . 675 The straightest Furrow lifts the Ploughman's heart , The Hat he gain'd has warmth for head and heart ; The Bowl that beats the greater number down , Of tottering Nine - pins , gives to fame the Clown ; Or foil'd in these , he ...
... Fame . 675 The straightest Furrow lifts the Ploughman's heart , The Hat he gain'd has warmth for head and heart ; The Bowl that beats the greater number down , Of tottering Nine - pins , gives to fame the Clown ; Or foil'd in these , he ...
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... Fame he yet retain'd ; no more ; / When , save his honest Fame , he kept no more ; 2-4 468 His Wife was buried , and his Children poor ; 1 473 And they are just ] And just , as kind 474 And for Assistance ] And then for Comforts 1-4 478 ...
... Fame he yet retain'd ; no more ; / When , save his honest Fame , he kept no more ; 2-4 468 His Wife was buried , and his Children poor ; 1 473 And they are just ] And just , as kind 474 And for Assistance ] And then for Comforts 1-4 478 ...
Contents
VOLUME I | xix |
The Parish Register | xxiii |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | xxv |
Copyright | |
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