INDEX

Addison;

Adventures of Richard, The

;

Aldeburgh;

Allegro

(Milton);

Allington (Lincolnshire);

Ancient Mansion, The

;

Annals of the Parish, The

(Galt);

Annual Register, The

;

Austen, Jane;

Autobiography, Crabbe's;

B

Baillie, Agnes;

—Joanna;

Barnes, William;

Barrie, J.M.;

Barton, Bernard;

Basket-Woman, The

(Edgeworth);

Bath;

Beccles;

Belvoir Castle;

Biography, Crabbe's;

"Blaney";

Borough, The

;

Boswell;

Bowles, William Lisle;

Boys at School

;

Bristol;

Bunbury, Sir Henry;

Burke;

Burns;

Butler, Joseph;

Byron;

C

Campbell, Thomas;

Candidate, The

;

Canterbury Tales, The

(Chaucer);

Castle Rackrent

(Edgeworth);

Celtic Club;

Chatterton;

Chaucer;

Childe Harold

(Byron);

Church, English;

Churchill (poet);

Clarissa Harlowe

(Richardson);

"Clelia";

Clergy, non-residence of;

sketches of; [1], [2], [3], [4]

Clifton;

Coleridge;

Confessions of an Opium Eater

, (De Quincey);

Confidant, The

;

Courthope, Mr.;

Cowley;

Cowper;

Crabbe, George, birth and family, history of;

early literary bent; [1]

school days; [1]

apprenticed to a surgeon; [1]

life at Woodbridge; [1]

falls in love; [1]

first efforts in verse; [1]

practises as a surgeon; [1]

dangerous illness; [1]

engagement to Miss Elmy; [1]

seeks his fortune in London; [1]

poverty in London; [1]

keeps a diary; [1]

unsuccessful attempts to sell his poems; [1]

appeals to Edmund Burke; [1]

Burke's help and patronage; [1]

invited to Burke's country seat; [1], [2]

publishes The Library; [1], [2]

friendship with Burke; [1]

second letter to Burke; [1]

meetings with prominent men; [1]

takes Holy Orders; [1]

returns to Aldeburgh as curate; [1]

coldly received by his fellow-townsmen; [1]

becomes domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland; [1]

life at Belvoir Castle; [1], [2], [3]

The Village; [1]

receives LL.B. degree; [1]

presented to two livings; [1]

marriage; [1]

curate of Stathern; [1]

his children; [1], [2], [3]

village traditions concerning him; [1]

The Newspaper; [1]

life at Stathern; [1]

moves to Muston; [1]

revisits his native place; [1]

goes to Parham; [1], [2]

lives at Great Glemham Hall; [1]

moves to Rendham; [1]

ill-health; [1], [2]

use of opium; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

returns to Muston; [1], [2]

publishes a new volume of poems; [1]

The Parish Register; [1]

his great popularity; [1], [2]

friendship with Sir Walter Scott; [1], [2]

The Borough; [1]

Tales; [1]

visit to London; [1]

returns to Muston; [1]

death of his wife; [1]

serious illness; [1]

rector of Trowbridge; [1]

departure from Muston; [1]

intercourse with literary men in London; [1], [2]

a member of the "Literary Society"; [1]

receives £3000 from John Murray; [1]

returns to Trowbridge; [1]

Tales of the Hall; [1]

visits Scott in Edinburgh; [1]

Posthumous Poems; [1], [2], [3]

last years at Trowbridge; [1]

illness and death; [1]

his religious temperament; [1], [2], [3]

rusticity and lack of polish; [1], [2]

indifference to art; [1]

want of tact; [1]

love of female society; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

acquaintance and sympathy with the poor; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]

his preaching; [1]

inequality of his work; [1], [2], [2], [2], [2]

influence of preceding poets; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]

his reputation at its height; [1], [2]

knowledge of botany; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

his descriptions of nature; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]

first great realist in verse; [1], [2], [2]

fondness for verbal antithesis; [1], [2]

his epigrams; [1]

defective technique; [1]

his influence on subsequent novelists; [1], [2]

parodies of his style; [1], [2]

his sense of humour; [1], [2], [3], [4]

defects of his poetry; [1]

his retentive memory; [1]

his characters drawn from life; [1]

his treatment of peasant life; [1]

power of analysing character; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

choice of sordid and gloomy subjects; [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]

his lyric verses; [1]

Edward FitzGerald's great admiration of his poetry; [1]

contemporary and other estimates of his work; [1], [2], [3]

revival of interest in him; [1], [2]

Crabbe, George (father of the poet);

—Mrs. (mother);

—George (son);

—Mrs. (wife);

—John;

—Edmund;

—William;

—(brother);

—George (grandson);

—Caroline;

Critical Review

;

D

Daffodils, The

(Wordsworth);

Dejection, Ode to

(Coleridge);

Delay has Danger

;

De Quincey;

Deserted Village, The

(Goldsmith);

Diary, Crabbe's;

Dickens;

Dodsley (publisher);

Dora

(Tennyson);

Douglas, George;

Dunciad

(Pope);

Dunwich;

E

Edgeworth, Miss;

Edinburgh;

Edinburgh Annual Register

;

Edinburgh Review

;

Edward Shore

;

Elegant Extracts

(Vicesimus Knox);

Elegy in a Country Churchyard,

(Gray);

Ellen

;

Elmy, Miss Sarah.

See

[Crabbe, Mrs.]

(wife);

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

(Byron);

Enoch Arden

(Tennyson);

Erskine, William;

Essay on Man

(Pope);

Eustace Grey

. See

[Sir Eustace Grey]

Excursion, The

(Wordsworth);

F

Felon, the condemned, Description of;

Fielding;

Finden (artist);

FitzGerald, Edward;

—William Thomas;

Fox, Charles James;

—Henry Richard.

See

[Holland, Lord]

;

Frank Courtship, The

;

Fund, The Literary;

G

Gentleman Farmer, The

;

Gentleman's Magazine

;

George IV;

Glemham;

Glynn, Dr. Robert;

Goldsmith;

Gordon, Lord George;

Gore, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester);

Grantham;

Gray;

H

Hall of Justice, The

;

Hampstead;

Hanmer, Sir Thomas Memoir and Correspondence of

;

Hatchard, John (publisher);

Haunted House, The

(Hood);

Hazlitt;

Heart of Midlothian, The

(Scott);

Henry V

(Shakespeare);

"Hetty Sorrel";

Highlanders;

Hoare family;

Hogarth;

Holland, Lord;

House with the Green Shutters, The

(George Douglas);

Huchon, M. (University of Nancy);

Human Life

(Rogers);

Huntingdon, William;

Hutton, Rev. W.H.;

I

Inebriety

;

In Memoriam

(Tennyson);

"Isaac Ashford";

J

Jeffrey

(Edinburgh Review)

;

Johnson, Samuel;

Jordan, Mrs. (actress);

K

"Kailyard school";

Keats;

Kemble, Fanny;

—John;

L

Lady Barbara

;

Lady of the Lake, The

(Scott);

Lamb, Charles;

Lamia and other Poems

(Keats);

Lansdowne, Third Marquis of;

Langborne (painter);

Lay of the Last Minstrel, The

(Scott);

Lazy Lawrence

(Edgeworth);

Leadbeater, Mrs.;

Library, The

;

Literary Society, The;

Lockhart;

Longmans (publisher);

Lothian, Lord;

Lowell;

Lover's Journey, The

;

Lyrical Ballads

(Wordsworth);

M

Macaulay;

Maid's Story, The

;

Manners, Lord Robert;

Maud

(Tennyson);

Memoir of Crabbe.

See

[Biography]

Methodism;

Miller's daughter The

(Tennyson);

Minerva Press, The;

"Mira";

Mitford, Miss;

Montgomery, Robert;

Monthly Review

;

Moore, Thomas;

Murillo;

Murray, John (publisher);

Muston (Leicestershire);

N

New Monthly

;

Newman, Cardinal;

Newspaper, The

;

Nineteenth Century

;

North, Mr. Dudley;

—Lord;

Novels in Crabbe's day;

O

Omar Khayyam;

Opium eating;

Our Village

(Miss Mitford);

P

Pains of Sleep

(Coleridge);

Parents' Assistant, The

(Edgeworth);

Parham;

Parish Register, The

;

Parting Hour, The

;

Patron, The

;

Phillips (artist);

"Phoebe Dawson";

Pluralities;

Poacher, The

(Scott);

Poor, State relief of;

Pope;

Posthumous Poems

;

Pretyman, Bishop;

Priest, Description of Parish;

Progress of Error

(Cowper);

Pucklechurch;

Q

Quarterly Review

;

Queensberry, Duke of;

R

Raleigh;

Reform Bill Riots;

Rejected Addresses

(Smith);

Rendham;

Reynolds, Sir Joshua;

Richardson (novelist);

Ridout, Miss Charlotte;

Riots, Gordon;

Bristol; [1]

Rogers, Samuel;

Rokeby

(Scott);

Romilly, Sir Samuel;

Ruskin;

Ruth

;

Rutland, Duke of;

S

Scott, Sir Walter;

Seasons, The

(Thomson);

Sellers, Miss Edith;

Shackleton, Edward;

Shakespeare;

Shelburne, Lord, lines to;

Shelley;

Siddons, Mrs;

Simple Susan

(Edgeworth);

Sir Eustace Grey

;

Sisters The

;

Smith, James (

Rejected, Addresses

);

Smollett;

Smugglers and Poachers

;

Solitary Reaper, The

(Wordsworth);

Southey;

Spenser;

Spirit of the Age

. (Hazlitt);

Stanfield, Clark on;

Stathern (Leictershire);

Stephen, Sir Leslie;

Stothard (painter);

Sweffling (Suffolk);

Swift;

Swinburne;

T

Table Talk

(Cowper);

Tales

;

Tales of the Hall

;

Tennyson;

—Frederick;

Thomson;

Thurlow, Lord;

Tomlins, Dr.

See

Tovell family;

Traveller, The

(Goldsmith);

Trollope, Anthony;

Trowbridge;

Turner, Rev. Richard;

V

Village, The

;

W

Walker, Frederick (artist);

Watson, Bishop;

Waverley

(Scott);

Wesley;

Wesleyan Movement;

Westall, Richard (artist);

Whitefield Revival;

Widow's Tale, The

;

Wife's Trial, The

(Lamb);

Wilkie;

Wolfe;

Woodbridge;

Wordsworth;

World of Dreams, The

;

Y

Young;