WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 3 (of 3) cover

George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 3 (of 3)

Chapter 184: 1834.
By George Crabbe
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

British LiteraturePoetry

About This Book

The volume gathers later narrative and miscellaneous poems, presenting a sequence of Tales of the Hall followed by posthumous pieces and shorter lyrics. An editor’s preface and textual notes outline manuscript sources and variant readings. The poems offer realistic portraits of rural and domestic life, closely observed scenes, and moral reflection on passions such as pride, grief, revenge, and belated refinement, delivered through narrative sketches and reflective commentary. Tone alternates between anecdotal storytelling, satirical observation, and sober moralizing.

1834.

40. The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life by his Son. In eight volumes. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, MDCCCXXXIV.

Collation and Contents:

Vol. 1. sm. 8º, pp. xi. 322 contains Life of ... Crabbe by his Son. [Fragments of verse are interspersed.]

Vol. 2. sm. 8º, pp. viii. 335 contains:

The Library.
The Village.
The Newspaper.
The Parish Register.
The Birth of Flattery.
Reflections upon the subject—Quid juvat errores, etc.
Sir Eustace Grey.
The Hall of Justice.
Woman!
[Selections from Parts I and II of] Inebriety.
Ye Gentle Gales.
Mira.
Hymn.
The Wish. (Give me, ye Powers, etc.)
The Comparison.
Goldsmith to the Author.
Fragment. “Lord, what is man, etc.”
The Resurrection.
My Birth-Day.
To Eliza.
Life.
The Sacrament.
Night.
Fragment, written at Midnight.
Time.
The Choice.
The Candidate.

Vol. 3. sm. 8º, pp. viii. 311 contains The Borough. Letters 1–19.

Vol. 4. sm. 8º, pp. viii. 317 contains:

The Borough. Letters 20–24.
The Ladies of the Lake.
Infancy—a fragment.
The Magnet.
Storm and Calm.
Belvoir Castle.
The World of Dreams.
Tales (1812), 1–8.

Vol. 5. sm. 8º, pp. viii. 297 contains:

Tales (1812), 9–21.
Flirtation.
Lines in Laura’s Album.
Lines written at Warwick.
On a drawing of the Elm Tree....
On receiving ... a Ring.
To a Lady, with ... extracts.
To a Lady, ... at Sidmouth.
To Sarah, Countess of Jersey.
To a Lady who desired verses....

Vol. 6. sm. 8º, pp, viii. 295 contains Tales of the Hall. Books 1–11.

Vol. 7. sm. 8º, pp, viii. 298 contains Tales of the Hall. Books 12–22.

Vol. 8. sm. 8º, pp. viii. 317 contains Posthumous Tales.

Illustrations: In Vols. 1–7 frontispieces and title-vignettes engraved by Finden after Stanfield. In Vol. 8 portrait of Crabbe engraved by Finden after T. Phillips, and title-vignette engraved by Finden after Stanfield.

41. [Epitaph for William Springall Levett.]

Printed in R. Green’s History of Framlingham (Lond., 1834), p. 163; and in Poetical Works (1834), vol. 1. p. 21.