THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE CRABBE. A NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED. WITH A LIFE. FIRENZE LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE; NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET. PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT. FEW poets have a stronger claim to be widely known than George Crabbe, for all he wrote had good for its basis. His poetry is healthy and fit to permeate through the hearts of a thinking people. No mysticism, no extravagant misleading theories, no unintelligible flights of imagination disfigure his manly verse; it is truth clothed in sense, and uttered in an impressive style, that fixes it in the memory of the reader. He is said to be "a stern painter;" but his pictures of the class that formed the objects of his writings, are not such as to create antagonism between them and other classes; he can, as in his " Noble Peasant" draw attractive pictures of the poor, as well as sketches to claim pity for their state. In fact, we think it one of the strongest proofs of the advantages derived from the cheap circulation of good literature, that there is a sufficient demand for the Poems of Crabbe to induce us to publish all of them that are available in an attractive form. FARRINGDON STREET, A |