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CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS
Poems
by
George Crabbe
In Three Volumes
GEORGE CRABBE
Born, 1754
Died, 1832
GEORGE CRABBE
POEMS
EDITED BY
ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD,
Litt.D., Hon. LL.D., F.B.A.
Master of Peterhouse
Volume I
Cambridge:
at the University Press1905
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PREFATORY NOTE.
In the present edition of Crabbe's Poems the generalarrangement adopted is that of the chronologicalorder of publication. The poem entitled Midnight hasbeen inserted at a conjectural date as belonging to theperiod of the Juvenile Poems (1772-1780); but all otherpoems contained in this edition which have hithertoremained unpublished will be printed after the publishedpoems, in the sequence of their production so far as thisis ascertainable. With the poems hitherto unpublishedI have also been fortunate enough to obtain permissionto include in a later volume, among other posthumouslyprinted pieces, the Two Poetical Epistles by Crabbe,first published, from a manuscript in the collection ofMr Buxton Forman, in Vol. II of Literary Anecdotes ofthe Nineteenth Century edited by W. Robertson Nicolland Thomas J. Wise (London, 1896). From the secondof these Epistles were taken, but not in their originalorder, the ten lines reproduced in the present volumefrom George Crabbe the younger's 1834 edition of hisfather's Poems.
The earliest of the Juvenile Poems here printed aretaken from The Lady's Magazine, or Entertaining Companionfor the Fair Sex, appropriated solely to their Useand Amusement, for the year 1772, printed at Londonfor Robinson and Roberts, 25 Paternoster Row. The[Pg vi]first volume of this Magazine seems to have been that forthe year 1770, and to have comprised the numbers fromAugust to December inclusive; but the earlier portionof this volume had been previously published in thesame year 1770 under the same title by J. Wheble at20 Paternoster Row, 'by whom letters to the Editorare requested and received.' This then must be the'W