Nature's Sternest Painter: Five Essays on the Poetry of George Crabbe |
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... never- theless observe closely the life in his floating cosmos , so Crabbe was never aloof from the life immediately around him . Quite the opposite . It is the penetration of his records of the men and manners passing under his direct ...
... never- theless observe closely the life in his floating cosmos , so Crabbe was never aloof from the life immediately around him . Quite the opposite . It is the penetration of his records of the men and manners passing under his direct ...
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... never concerned with the principles of classical art and never consciously attempted to emulate those principles . But there is an outlook upon life which he shares with his predecessors in this particular tradition . It may be ...
... never concerned with the principles of classical art and never consciously attempted to emulate those principles . But there is an outlook upon life which he shares with his predecessors in this particular tradition . It may be ...
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... never fails to recognize the gloomy and miserable aspects of hu- man existence , yet he never cries out against them , nor for one instant gives vent to the slightest feeling that mankind is being " misused , " except in so far as it ...
... never fails to recognize the gloomy and miserable aspects of hu- man existence , yet he never cries out against them , nor for one instant gives vent to the slightest feeling that mankind is being " misused , " except in so far as it ...
Contents
CRABBE AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
CRABBE IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 57 |
CRABBE AS NATURE POET | 88 |
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