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benefit. The novel had in the provisional one risen to its full height and then,
sunk. When Crabbe published his/her _Parish Register_ the novels of the day,
it was greatly the insipid productions of the Minerva Press, without
atmosphere, colour or the truth. Miss Edgeworth had already struck alone
her note of a new development in his/her _Castle Rackrent_, not to mention
the delicious histories in the assistant of Parents of _The, Simple Susan, Lazy
Lawrence_ or _The Cesto-Woman_. The masterpiece of Galt, Annalses of _The of the
Parish_, was not lying not also still ended in his/her desk. The
Mucklebackits and the Headriggs he/she anchors they were further distant. Miss
The squirts of Mitford in _Our Village_--the nearest in form to Crabbe
portraits of the life of country--it was still to come later. Crabbe, although him
stuck, with a wise knowledge of his/her his/her own powers, to the heroic couplet,
it is really a principal founder of the rural novel--the _Silas Marner_ and the
Fifty year-old _Adam Bede_ later. Clearly (for any man it is original) him
you/he/she had developed out his/her methods of that of his/her predecessors. Pope was his
more first master in his/her art. And that Pope had done in him his to say
couplets for the man and woman of way--the Chloes and Narcissas of
his/her day--Crabbe hoped that it was probable that he did for the poor man and bleak
inhabitants of the seaport of Suffolk. Thomson is also then, "beautiful youth
Lavinia", and the village-priest of Jeweler and poor widow that gather her/it
cresses from the brook, had witnessed him and you/he/she had offered their action
of the influence. But the attainment of Crabbe was practically a new thing. The
the success of Parish of _The Register_ was greatly that of a new adventure in
the world of the fiction. Anything destroys the critic of pure poetry it was able
discovers in his/her workmanship, the poem was read for its histories--for a
the truth of realism that could not be doubted, and for a pity that was able
is not unshared.
In the 1809 Crabbe it sent a copy of his/her poems (it now reduced from the