GEORGE CRABBE

George Crabbe, The Complete Poetical Works, ed. N. Dalrymple-Champneys and A. Pollard (3 vols, Oxford, 1988). George Crabbe, Selected Letters and Journals, ed. T.C. Faulkner and R.L. Blair (Oxford, 1985). George Crabbe, Tales, 1812, and Other Selected Poems, ed. H. Mills (Cam- bridge, 1967). George Crabbe, Selected Poems, ed. Gavin Edwards (Penguin Selected English Poets, London, 1991) [brief, well-pointed notes, esp. running refs to Godwin and to Jane Austen].

Jeffrey (Francis), 'On Crabbe's Poems', review of Poems. By the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B. (1807), Edinburgh Review (April, 1808); and see also Edinburgh Review (April, 1810, July, 1819, January, 1835). George Crabbe, Jr, 'Life of the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B.', in The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by his Son (8 vols, London, 1834), Vol. I.

Curran (Stuart) (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (Cambridge, 1993). O'Neill (Michael) (ed.), Literature of the Romantic Period; A Bibliographical Guide (Oxford, c.1998 and reprinted). Keymer (Thomas) and Mee (Jon) (eds), The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 (Cambridge, 2004). Roe (Nicholas) (ed.), Romanticism; An Oxford Guide (Oxford, 2005).

Watson (J.R.) (ed.), Pre-Romanticism in English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century; The Poetic Art and Significance of Thomson, Gray, Collins, Goldsmith, Cowper & Crabbe; A Casebook (Basingstoke, 1989). Brown (Marshall), Preromanticism (Stanford, Cal., 1991); see also his 'Romanticism and Enlightenment', in Curran (Stuart) (ed.), The Cam- bridge Companion to British Romanticism (Cambridge, 1993).

Edwards (Gavin), George Crabbe's Poetry on Border Land (Studies in British Literature, 7; Lewiston N.Y. and Lampeter, 1990); see also his 'Crabbe's 2 So-Called Realism', Essays in Criticism, XXX (1987), 303-20, and 'The Essential Crabbe', Essays in Criticism, XXXIX (1989), 84-91. Fulford (Tim), Landscape, Liberty, and Authority; Poetry, Criticism, and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge, 1996). Haddakin (Lilian), The Poetry of Crabbe (London, 1955). Hatch (R.B.), Crabbe's Arabesque; Social Drama in the Poetry of George Crabbe (Montreal, 1976); see also his 'George Crabbe and the Tenth Muse', Eighteenth Century Studies, 7 (1974), 274-94. Jeffrey (Francis), 'On Crabbe's Poems', review of Poems. By the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B. (1807), Edinburgh Review (April, 1808). McGann (Jerome J.), 'The Anachronism of George Crabbe', ELH, 48 (1981), 555-572; reprinted in his The Beauty of Inflections; Literary Inves- tigations in Historical Method and Theory (Oxford, 1985); see also his 'George Crabbe: Poetry and Truth', London Review of Books (16th March 1989). New (Peter), George Crabbe's Poetry (New York, 1967). Ricks (Christopher), 'George Crabbe's Thoughts of Confinement' in his Essays in Appreciation (Oxford, 1996), pp. 67-89. Schulz (Max F.), 'Crabbe's and Clare's Enclosured Vales', in his Paradise Preserved; Recreations of Eden in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England (Cambridge, 1985). Snell (K.D.M.), Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England 1660-1900 (Cambridge, 1985). Speirs (John), 'Crabbe as Master of the Verse Tale', The Oxford Review, 2 (1966), 3-40. Swingle (J.L.), 'Late Crabbe in Relation to the Augustans and Romantics; The Temporal Labyrinth of his Tales in Verse, 1812', ELH, 42 (1975), 580- 94.

Thomas (W.K.), 'Crabbe's Borough: The Process of Montage,' University of Toronto Quarterly, 36 (1967), 181-192.

Whitehead (F.), 'Crabbe, "Realism", and Poetic Truth', Essays in Criticism, XXXIX (1989), 29-46.

J.H. Prynne, July 2006

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