The Village and The Newspaper by George Crabbe (1754-1832)
Contents
The Village
Book 1
Book 2
The Newspaper
THE VILLAGE
BOOK I. - THE ARGUMENT.
The Subject proposed - Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry - A Tract of Country near the Coast described - An Impoverished Borough - Smugglers and their Assistants - Rude Manners of the Inhabitants - Ruinous Effects of the High Tide - The Village Life more generally considered: Evils of it - The Youthful Labourer - The Old Man: his Soliloquy - The Parish Workhouse: its Inhabitants - The sick Poor: their Apothecary - The dying Pauper - The Village Priest.
The Village Life, and every care that reigns