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... appear more cheerful than it is . He sees the village exactly as it is , and , as it is , it is worth re- cording in poetry . From that record , since " vice and misery demand the song , " he points out how often the misery is the ...
... appear more cheerful than it is . He sees the village exactly as it is , and , as it is , it is worth re- cording in poetry . From that record , since " vice and misery demand the song , " he points out how often the misery is the ...
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... appear a lack of understanding , not of the people themselves , but of some of the reasons which lie behind the deplorable situations in which the poet found them . After describing conditions in the worst part of the parish , he ...
... appear a lack of understanding , not of the people themselves , but of some of the reasons which lie behind the deplorable situations in which the poet found them . After describing conditions in the worst part of the parish , he ...
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... appear . It is in these notes , inci- dentally , that the epithet " Pope in worsted stockings " first appears , to haunt all succeeding critics of Crabbe ; 26 certainly the verses which the Smiths composed were sufficiently in ac- cord ...
... appear . It is in these notes , inci- dentally , that the epithet " Pope in worsted stockings " first appears , to haunt all succeeding critics of Crabbe ; 26 certainly the verses which the Smiths composed were sufficiently in ac- cord ...
Contents
CRABBE AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
CRABBE IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 57 |
CRABBE AS NATURE POET | 88 |
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