George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 3 (of 3)

George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 3 (of 3)

The very miscellaneous nature of the contents of this third and last volume of the present edition of Crabbes Poems obliges me to trouble the reader with a rather lengthy series of prefatory remarks. Before, however, entering on these, I should like to supplement what was said in the Preface to Vol. 1 with regard to the source of the earliest among the Juvenilia there printed. Since writing that Preface I have at last had an opportunity of examining the whole set of Vols. I-VI (for the years 17705) of the elusive Ladys Magazine, of which Vol. I was published by Robinson and Roberts, and the remaining five volumes by Robinson. Curiously enough, the 1773 volume of this Magazine contains, in the February number, a long piece of verse, apparently a prize poem, entitled An Essay on Hope; but the six lines quoted by the younger Crabbe are not to be found in this poem any more than in that printed in the October number of the 1772 volume of the Magazine. By another coincidence, a poem called The Bee, signed Louisa Broughton, appears in the April number of the same Magazine for 1774. I may add, that the June number of the same volume contains a poem, in Shenstones manner, addressed To Miss Er M, and signed G. C., Cambridge, May 2, 1774. It has an apologetic introductory note, which might have been written by Crabbe. viTo turn to the present volume. The Tales of the Hall (Bks. XII-XXII), which occupy its earlier pages are, like the previous Tales contained in Vol. II, printed from the edition of 1823; and the variants are taken from the first edition (1819) and from the Original MS. readings given as footnotes in the edition of 1834. The Posthumous Tales are printed from Vol. VIII of the Poetical Works of Crabbe edited by his son (1834). The sources of the variants in the Posthumous Tales will be indicated immediately. With regard to the remaining contents of the present volume, it may be convenient if I here, in accordance with a promise made in the Preface to Vol. II of the present edition, furnish some account of the Crabbe MSS. now in the possession of the Cambridge University Press, as well as of certain other collections of MSS. of which I have been fortunate enough to be allowed to make use. In each case, I have, for purposes of reference, indicated the marks by which, in a list given at the end of the Bibliography included in the present volume, the previously unpublished pieces by Crabbe, here printed from transcripts of the originals in the several collections, have been distinguished. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59204
Author: Crabbe, George
Release Date: Apr 4, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, 1837-1924