Category: Poetry
Two eminent English poets who must be reckoned moderns though each produced characteristic verse before the end of the eighteenth century, George Crabbe and William Wordsworth, have shared the common fate of those writers who, possessing a very moderate power of self-criticism...
The last thirteen years of Crabbe's life were spent at Trowbridge, varied by occasional absences among hiss friends at Bath, and in the neighbourhood, and by annual visits of gr...
3. Chapter 3Thus far I have followed the guidance of Crabbe's son and biographer, but there is much that is confused and incomplete in his narrative. The story of Crabbe's life, as told by...
5. Chapter 5On the arrival of the family at Parham, poor Crabbe discovered that even an accession of fortune had its attendant drawbacks. His son, George, records his own recollections (he...
7. Chapter 7The immediate success of _The Parish Register_ in 1807 encouraged Crabbe to proceed at once with a far longer poem, which had been some years in hand. _The Borough_ was begun at...
8. Chapter 8Crabbe's new volume--"Tales. By the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B."--was published by Mr. Hatchard of Piccadilly in the summer of 1812. It received a warm welcome from the poet's adm...
6. Chapter 6"When in October, 1805, Mr. Crabbe resumed the charge of his own parish of Muston, he found some changes to vex him, and not the less because he had too much reason to suspect t...
2. Chapter 2Crabbe had no acquaintances of his own in London, and the only introduction he carried with him was to an old friend of Miss Elmy's, a Mrs. Burcham, married to a linen-draper in...
11. Chapter 11residence with his mother near a small sea-port (evidently Aldeburgh); and here we once more read of the boy, George Crabbe, watching and remembering every aspect of the storms,...
9. Chapter 9In the margin of FitzGerald's copy of the _Memoir_ an extract is quoted from Crabbe's Diary: "1810, Nov. 7.--Finish Tales. Not happy hour." The poet's comment may have meant som...
1. Chapter 1Two eminent English poets who must be reckoned moderns though each produced characteristic verse before the end of the eighteenth century, George Crabbe and William Wordsworth,...
4. Chapter 4"The sudden popularity of _The Village_" writes Crabbe's son and biographer, "must have produced, after the numberless slights and disappointments already mentioned, and even af...
10. Chapter 10The _Tales of the Hall_ were published by John Murray in June 1819, in two handsome octavo volumes, with every advantage of type, paper, and margin. In a letter of Crabbe to Mrs...