THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE CRABBE EDITED BY A. J. CARLYLE AND R. M. CARLYLE DOM MINA ILLV MEA HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY 1914 Gift Mr Harlan Hatche 05-12-99. 31926691 PREFACE In this edition of Crabbe's works, we have reproduced the text of the author's own edition, adding only the posthumous volume of Tales, practically left ready for publication by the poet, and the few poems gathered together under the titles Juvenilia' and 'Occasional Poems', which are reprinted from his son's edition of 1834. It is true that some of these were condemned by Crabbe himself as unworthy to live, but they are already known to many readers, and could hardly be left out. The only notes are those made by Crabbe himself. The arrangement of the poems is chronological. For the biographical matter we are indebted to the Life by his son, prefixed to the edition of 1834, and to Mr. Ainger's Life of Crabbe in the English Men of Letters edition. |