Tales 1812 and Selected Poems

This selection of Crabbe's work includes the entire Tales of 1812, two-thirds of The Parish Register and nearly half of The Borough, besides other poems.

Crabbe (Author)

9780521094207, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 May 1967

484 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

This 1967 book aims to provide the student and general reader with a large selection of Crabbe's poems. It includes all of the Tales of 1812, two-thirds of The Parish Register and nearly half of The Borough, besides other poems - in all, a good third of Crabbe's prolific work. The introduction offers the reader a survey of Crabbe's life and his varied poems, and takes issue with persistent prejudices about Crabbe. It traces his relationship to the Romantic Age in which he wrote most of his work, takes up moral and social elements in his writing, and raises a number of critical discussions. A bibliography and chronology of Crabbe's life are included, with a selection of Crabbe's own notes to the poems. Before this book was published, the lack of a generous selection of Crabbe's work has largely excluded him from study. This volume addresses this dearth.

Preface
Table of life and works
Introduction
Select bibliography
Part I. The Village, 1783: Book 1
Book 2
Part II. The Parish Register, 1807: Part 1
Part 3
Part III. The Borough, 1810: Letter 1. General Description
Letter 3. The Vicar - the Curate, etc.
Letter 10. Clubs and Social Meetings
Letter 11. Inns
Letter 13. The Alms-House and Trustees
Letter 14. Inhabitants of the Alms-House: Blaney
Letter 16. Inhabitants of the Alms-House: Benbow
Letter 22. The Poor of the Borough: Peter Grimes
Letter 23. Prisons
Part IV. Tales, 1812: Tale 1. The Dumb Orators
or, The Benefit of Society
Tale 2. The Parting Hour
Tale 3. The Gentleman Farmer
Tale 4. Procrastination
Tale 5. The Patron
Tale 6. The Frank Courtship
Tale 7. The Widow's Tale
Tale 8. The Mother
Tale 9. Arabella
Tale 10. the Lover's journey
Tale 11. Edward Shore
Tale 12. Squire Thomas
or, The Precipitate Choice
Tale 13. Jesse and Colin
Tale 14. The Struggles of Conscience
Tale 15. Advice
or, The Squire and the Priest
tale 16. The Confidant
Tale 17. Resentment
Tale 18. The Wager
Tale 19. The Convert
Tale 20. The Brothers
Tale 21. the Learned Boy
Part V. Infancy - A Fragment, 1816
Part VI: The World of Dreams, c. 1817
Part VII. Tales of the Hall, 1819: Book 4. Adventures of Richard
Book 9. The Preceptor Husband
Book 13. Delay Has Danger
Book 22. The Visit Concluded
Part VIII: In a Neat Cottage, 1822.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]