Capitolo 9
publisher, the Mr. Wheble had offered a prize for the better poem on the
subject of _Hope_ that Crabbe was so fortunate as to win, and the same
periodical stamped the other short pieces in the same year, 1772. They was
"Signed G.C., Woodbridge", and lyric various and included it addressed to Aim.
The other existing verses of the period of his/her residence to the show of Woodbridge
what he was making experiments in room-form on the first model
Poets English, although without showing more than a certain imitative
ability. But after he had been three years in the city, he did a more
notable experiment and you/he/she had found a printer in Ipswich to take the risk
of publication. In 1775 it was printed in that city a didactic satire of
of the four hundred lines in the couplet of Popian, entitled _Inebriety_.
The friend of Coleridge that had to write a poem of prize on the subject of Dr.
Jenner, open audaciously with the call--
"Inoculation! Paradisiacal houseservant, comes down."
As the title of the poem of Crabbe is standing for the bad luck and not the antidote,
he could not adopt the same method, but he could not withstand to of the other
precedents of the epic poem order, and it start so, in the imitation of closing of _The
Dunciad_--
"The mighty spirit and his/her power that the stains
The cheek without blood and it vivifies the brains,
I sing"
The apparent object of the satire was to describe the various phases of
Intemperance, as observed by the writer in different classes of
society--the inhabitant of a village, the Gentleman of country the Grower, the Parish Ecclesiastical and
also the Noble Chaplain, an officer that Crabbe as he/she anchors he/she only knew
from imagination. From the infancy he had had ample experience of the vice
in the raw ones and unwise houses of the poor Aldeburgh. His/her subsequent
medical searches have had to bring him in occasional contact with him
among the middle classes, and also in the feud-houses and parsonages
for that he did on the medicine in the surgery of his/her master. But his
treatment of the subject was too palpably imitative of a poetic model,