The complete poetical works

Author(s)

• Crabbe, George
• Dalrymple-Champneys, Norma
• Pollard, Arthur

Bibliographic Information

The complete poetical works

George Crabbe ; edited in three volumes by Norma Dalrymple-Champneys and Arthur Pollard

（Oxford English texts）

Clarendon Press, 1988

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3

Note

Bibliography: v. 1, p. 779-816

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780198118824

Description

George Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries as a major poet. The leading reviewer of the day, Francis Jeffrey, paid tribute to his powerful originality. Byron pronounced him 'Though Nature's sternest Painter, yet the best'. Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, who declared that she would have married him, were among his many admirers. In our own time both critics and poets have praised his penetrating insights into human motivation, his realism, and his unique use of landscape as a setting for his poems and verse tales; and he is well known as the author of Peter Grimes, on which Benjamin Britten based his opera. Yet there has not been a collected edition of his verse since A.W. Ward's, some eighty years ago. The present edition draws on much recently discovered manuscript material in this country and in the USA, including a finished manuscript, with proofs, of Tales of the Hall, and manuscripts of four unpublished tales and of a number of shorter poems. Close attention has been paid to the evolution of the text from the rough pencil drafts in Crabbe's notebooks to the final version on the printed page. An extensive Commentary relates both to the literary context and to Crabbe's many observations on the social scene of his day.

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780198127871

Description

Although George Crabbe (1754-1832) was acclaimed by his contemporaries--receiving high praise from Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, among others--there has not been a collected edition of his verse since A.W. Ward's, some eighty years ago. The present edition draws on much recently discovered manuscript material from America and Britain, including a finished manuscript (with proofs) of Tales of the Hall, and manuscripts of four unpublished tales and of a number of shorter poems. Close attention has been paid to the evolution of the text from the rough pencil drafts in Crabbe's notebooks to the final version in print. An extensive commentary relates both to the literary context and to Crabbe's many observations on the social scene of his day.

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780198127888

Description

This is the first collected edition of the verse for some eighty years. The editors use much recently discovered manuscript material, and there is extensive commentary.

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Details

• NCID: BA03738606
• ISBN:
  • 0198118821
  • 0198127871
  • 019812788X
• LCCN: 86019187
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4510.A5
  • DC19 : 821/.7
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00464989