Capitolo 3
of the first and not least jewel of his/her poems, you/he/she was written (in
divides, at least) as soon as 1781, while Wordsworth was still a child, and
before Cowper had published a volume. In still another respect Crabbe was
to work of equal footstep with Wordsworth. He doesn't seem to have held
opinions defined as to necessary reforms in what called Wordsworth
"poetic diction." Indeed he was prevented, as it was not Wordsworth from a,
the adherence of the whole life to a meter--the heroic couplet--with which this same
the poetic diction was tied up more from near on. He didn't always escape the
effects of this contagion, but in the principal he was delivered by him from
what I have called an association of first-hand with man and nature. He was
never describing what he had seen and you/he/she had studied with his/her his/her own eyes and the
dictionary of the bards that you/they had for generations the takings in loan from one
another failed to provide him/it with the words he had need. The a lot
limitations of the first five-and-twenty years of his/her life passed in a
small and to decay seaport was more than it compensated from the intimacy
of his/her knowledge with his/her inhabitants. Likes Wordsworth that he had soon
known love and it is distressed "in the huts where poor men lie."
The fame of Wordsworth and the influence are firmly grown since its death in
1850. Apparently The reputation of Crabbe was to its height in 1819, for him
it was then, on occasion of his/her book industry his/her _Tales of the Hall_ that
The Mr. John Murray paid him/it three thousand pounds for the copyright of this
jobs and his/her predecessors. But after that date that the popularity of Crabbe is able
is said that has continually declined. Other poets, with other and more
poetic gifts, purely rose to ask the attention of men. Besides
Wordsworth, as already sharpened out, Scott, Byron, Coleridge, Keats,
Shelley had found their launchings admirers, and drawn the old public of Crabbe
from him. It is the purpose of this small volume to ask in the