George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)
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The poems of the great poet of East Anglia and witness to rural poverty, are precise, closely observed, realistic portraits of rural life and landscape, written mainly in heroic couplets.
Chapters (646)
- POEMS
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- CORRIGENDA.
- CONTENTS.
- JUVENILIA
- SOLITUDE.
- A SONG.
- CONCLUDING LINES OF PRIZE POEM ON HOPE.
- TO EMMA.
- DESPAIR.
- CUPID.
- SONG.
- [ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SPRINGALL LEVETT.]
- PARODY ON [BYROM'S] "MY TIME, OH YE MUSES."
- THE WISH.
- INEBRIETY.
- The PREFACE.
- PART the FIRST.
- PART the SECOND.
- PART the THIRD.
- JUVENILIA.
- [THE LEARNING OF LOVE.]
- YE GENTLE GALES.
- MIRA.
- HYMN.
- THE WISH.
- THE COMPARISON.
- GOLDSMITH TO THE AUTHOR.
- FRAGMENT.
- THE RESURRECTION.
- MY BIRTH-DAY.
- TO ELIZA.
- LIFE.
- THE SACRAMENT.
- NIGHT.
- FRAGMENT, WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT.
- MIDNIGHT.
- JUVENILIA
- [A FAREWELL.]
- TIME.
- THE CHOICE.
- [A HUMBLE INVOCATION.]
- [FROM AN EPISTLE TO MIRA.]
- [CONCLUDING LINES OF AN EPISTLE TO PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY, AFTERWARDS KING WILLIAM IV.]
- [DRIFTING.]
- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SHELBURNE.
- AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND.
- THE CANDIDATE;
- AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.
- TO THE READER.
- TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.
- POEMS.
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE.
- THE LIBRARY.
- THE VILLAGE.
- BOOK I.
- BOOK II.
- THE NEWSPAPER.
- DEDICATION
- TO THE READER.
- THE NEWSPAPER.
- THE PARISH REGISTER.
- INTRODUCTION.
- PART I.
- PART II.
- PART III.
- THE BIRTH OF FLATTERY.
- REFLECTIONS
- SIR EUSTACE GREY.
- THE HALL OF JUSTICE.
- PART I.
- PART II.
- WOMAN!
- THE BOROUGH.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LETTER I.
- LETTER II.
- LETTER III.
- LETTER IV.
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- LETTER XX.
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- ERRATA
- VARIANTS.
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