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Crabbe, The Selected Verse of

Literature & Fiction

Crabbe, George

Literary

Penguin Classics

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.

Crabbe: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

Rooted in the Suffolk landscape of his youth, the poetry of George Crabbe is some of the most distinctive and original of the early nineteenth century, exploring ordinary, often harsh working lives in realistic, subtle language. This selection contains the best of Crabbe's poetry from throughout his career, including 'Peter Grimes' from The Borough, the powerful 'Sir Eustace Grey', the complete Tales of 1812 and the remarkable late work 'The Family of Love'. Depicting people struggling against the undertow of the past and against their own frailties, these are works of great generosity and human sympathy. This Penguin Classics volume is edited with an introduction and notes by Gavin Edwards. George Crabbe was born in 1754 in Suffolk. The son of a collector of salt-duties, he spent a period of apprenticeship and unsuccessful practice as an apothecary and surgeon before moving to London to make his way as a writer. Struggling with destitution, he was befriended by Edmund Burke, who helped him first to get his work published and then to embark on a career in the church. His religious career culminated in his appointment as Rector of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where he died in 1832. Gavin Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales. He is the author of George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land (1990) and Narrative Order 1789-1819: Life and Story in an Age of Revolution (2005).

Penguin Classics Selected Poems

Poetry

Penguin Classic

George 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.

The Complete Poetical Works (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

Although George Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries--receiving high praise from Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, among others--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 from America and Britain, 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 in print. An extensive commentary relates both to the literary context and to Crabbe's many observations on the social scene of his day.

This is the first collected edition of the verse for some eighty years. The editors use much recently discovered manuscript material, and there is extensive commentary.

The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 3 (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

Presents newly discovered poems by George Crabbe written during the later years of his life.

New Poems

History & Criticism

Praeger

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The poetical works of George Crabbe

Scholarly Press

The Poetical Works Of Crabbe, Heber And Pollok: Complete In One Volume

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Pollok, Robert

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

George Crabbe V3: Poems (1907)

Kessinger Publishing

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Crabbe, The Selected Verse of

Crabbe: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics Selected Poems

The Complete Poetical Works (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

The Complete Poetical Works (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 3 (|c OET |t Oxford English Texts)

New Poems

The poetical works of George Crabbe

The Poetical Works Of Crabbe, Heber And Pollok: Complete In One Volume

George Crabbe V3: Poems (1907)