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volume of Annual _The Register_ that contains the passages from _The
Village;_ as deeply they had sunk in his/her heart; and what (writing
then to Crabbe of year 1809) he could still repeat them from memory.
The friend of Edmund Burke, Edward Shackleton, meeting Crabbe to Burke
you lodge soon after the publication of the poem, it paid him/it an elegant
tribute. Jeweler, he said, now it would be the village "abandoned."
Crabbe modestly disowned the compliment, and surely with reason
The delicious poem of jeweler will be never abandoned. For him any loss is
good person and wise man to think the life of village as is probable that I/you/he/she am, that to reflect
on that of which you/he/she has suffered from the inhumanity of man to equip. What made Crabbe a
now forces in poetry English, it was that in his toward Pity it appears, after a
long forgetfulness as the true antidote to the Sentimentalism. The reader is not
you postpone with the beautiful imaginings, but you/he/she is conducted to the object that the
poet would show him/it, and you/he/she made to feel his/her horror. If Crabbe is the our first
great realist in toward, he uses his/her realism in the cause of a truth
humanity. Indignatio of _Facit versum._
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: I cannot deny me the pleasure of here that it admits mine
indebtedness to a French researcher, M. Huchon of the university of Nancy.
M. Huchon is occupied on a study of the Life and Poetry of
Crabbe, and during a conversation with me in London, before
called my attention to the volume that contains this letter. I agree with
him in to think that any preceding biographer of Crabbe has been aware of
his/her existence.]
I CAPITULATE IV
LIFE AT BELVOIR CASTLE AND Á. MUSTON
(1783-1792)
"The sudden popularity of _The Village_" he/she writes the child of Crabbe and
biographer, has "due to produce, after the innumerable one disdains and
disappointments already mentioned, and also after the tolerable success
of _The Library_, around as strong a revulsion in the mind of my father as a
office of ducal chaplain in his/her circumstances; but there was no change in his