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country and in the USA, including a finished manuscript, with proofs, of Tales of the Hall, and manuscripts of four unpublished tales and of a number of shorter poems.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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... night ; Trembling and poor I still remain , To meet unconscious night again . Time in my pathway strews few flowers , To cheer or cheat the weary hours ; And those few strangers , dear indeed , Are choked , are check'd , by many a weed ...
... night ; Trembling and poor I still remain , To meet unconscious night again . Time in my pathway strews few flowers , To cheer or cheat the weary hours ; And those few strangers , dear indeed , Are choked , are check'd , by many a weed ...
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... Night ; To dress in gaudy Patch - work , and to force The Mind to think on the appointed Course ; - This is laborious , and may be defin'd The bootless Labour of the thriftless Mind . There is a veteran Dame ; I see her stand Intent and ...
... Night ; To dress in gaudy Patch - work , and to force The Mind to think on the appointed Course ; - This is laborious , and may be defin'd The bootless Labour of the thriftless Mind . There is a veteran Dame ; I see her stand Intent and ...
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... night ... 58 rest 93 child 121 night 183 knees 239 fly 241 death 296 Rustic 326 state 328 fame 317 skill 336 view 325 length 373 Value 346 Long 352 taste 398 friend 359 Gratitude 482 joy 522 joy 496 sight 526 Blood 555 aid 505 One 566 ...
... night ... 58 rest 93 child 121 night 183 knees 239 fly 241 death 296 Rustic 326 state 328 fame 317 skill 336 view 325 length 373 Value 346 Long 352 taste 398 friend 359 Gratitude 482 joy 522 joy 496 sight 526 Blood 555 aid 505 One 566 ...
Contents
VOLUME I | xix |
The Parish Register | xxiii |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | xxv |
Copyright | |
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