Capitolo 43
Village_ him challenge audaciously his/her readers' judgment on this head.
The "pleasant earth" of the pastoral poets it was one of what George
Crabbe, not unjustly, contempt of "thought."
"The life of village and each care that reigns
Young country O'er and swains that decline,
What they operate products and that that, that work past,
You grow old, in his/her time of the languor, it finally finds;
What a form the true portrait of the poor man,
Demands a song--the Muse can give anybody more.
Run away it is those times when in harmonious efforts
The rustic poet praised his/her native plans:
Any shepherds now, in smooth toward alternated,
The beauty of their country or their nymphs you try;
He/she still anchors for these we frame I strive him/it tender,
Still in our laying affectionate Corydonses complain him,
And shepherds' boys that their loving pains reveal,
The only pains, alas! they never feels."
To this point the six lines for which you/he/she had replaced Johnson follow the
author. Crabbe had written:--
"In more equitable scenes, where peaceful spring of pleasures,
It is probable that Tityrus, the pride of the swains of Mantuan sings.
But it enchanted from him, or tormented with his/her sights,
Will modern poets court the muse of Mantuan?
From the Truth and Nature we widely divert,
Where do you fall Elaborate, or did Virgil conduct the way?"
Johnson replaced the following, and Crabbe accepted the revised one
version:--
"On the banks of Mincio, in the generous kingdom of Caesar,
If Tityrus found again the Gilded age,
Owes sleepy bards the flattering dream you prolong,
Echo of mechanic of the song of Mantuan?
From the Truth and Nature we widely divert,
Where Virgil, not where it Imagines, leads the way?"
The first four lines of Johnson are over question an improvement, and
it is comment of value in to pass as in the fourth line he has anticipated
The done poetry" of Cowper a mere art of mechanic."
But in the final couplet, the meaning of Crabbe seems to lose in