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country and in the USA, including a finished manuscript, with proofs, of Tales of the Hall, and manuscripts of four unpublished tales and of a number of shorter poems.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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... Pride were his , ' twas not their vulgar Pride , Who , in their base Contempt , the Great deride ; Nor Pride in Learning , though my Clerk agreed , If Fate should call him , Ashford might succeed ; Nor Pride in rustic Skill although we ...
... Pride were his , ' twas not their vulgar Pride , Who , in their base Contempt , the Great deride ; Nor Pride in Learning , though my Clerk agreed , If Fate should call him , Ashford might succeed ; Nor Pride in rustic Skill although we ...
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... Pride , in the Power that guards his Country's Coast , And all that Englishmen enjoy and boast ; Pride , in a Life that Slander's Tongue defy'd , In fact , a noble Passion , misnam'd Pride . He had no Party's Rage , no Sect'ry's Whim ...
... Pride , in the Power that guards his Country's Coast , And all that Englishmen enjoy and boast ; Pride , in a Life that Slander's Tongue defy'd , In fact , a noble Passion , misnam'd Pride . He had no Party's Rage , no Sect'ry's Whim ...
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... Pride built a Palace , Avarice groan'd and paid ; Pride plac'd the signs of Grandeur all about , And Avarice barr'd his Friends and Children out . 260 Now see him Doctor ! yes , the idle Fool , The Butt , the Robber of the Lads at ...
... Pride built a Palace , Avarice groan'd and paid ; Pride plac'd the signs of Grandeur all about , And Avarice barr'd his Friends and Children out . 260 Now see him Doctor ! yes , the idle Fool , The Butt , the Robber of the Lads at ...
Contents
VOLUME I | xix |
The Parish Register | xxiii |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | xxv |
Copyright | |
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