The Works of the The Rev. George Crabbe. In Eight Volumes
Published by London: John Murray 1823, 1823
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Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, Norfolk, United KingdomVoewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA
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Reprint of the 1822 edition edited by Crabbe himself. A very nice set in contemporary straight-grained red morocco. Front and rear boards with fine gilt dentelles. Inside dentelles. Spines with four raised bands with gilt lettering and decoration. One area of marking on vol. vi. Text is in excellent condition and overall this is a lovely set. Fine Vol. I. Poems; Vol. II and III. The Borough; Vols. IV and V. Tales; Vols VI-VIII. Tales of the Hall. One does not meet much Crabbe today, save for his poem 'The Borough' with its tale of Peter Grimes, which inspired a 29-year-old Benjamin Britten to return to England, and Suffolk (where Crabbe, too, was born and raised). Such an occasional, vicarious encounter does little justice to the fame Crabbe enjoyed in his lifetime. A friend of Burke, and later Scott (who called him the 'English Juvenal' in Waverley), Crabbe was a poet whose realism, 'preceding even Cowper and anticipating Wordsworth, was the first important indication of one characteristic movement in the contemporary school of poetry' (DNB). Byron thought him 'though nature's sternest painter, yet the best'. 'Wordsworth said that the poems would last as long as anything written in verse since their first appearance. Miss Austen said that she could fancy being Mrs Crabbe. Jeffrey reviewed him admiringly, and in later years Edward FitzGerald, the translator of 'Omar Khayyám,' wrote an admiring preface to a selection in which he says that Lord Tennyson appreciates them equally with himself. Cardinal Newman speaks of the "extreme delight" with which he read "Tales of the Hall" on their appearance. Thirty years later he says that a fresh reading has touched him still more, and a note, after a further lapse of twenty years, endorses this opinion. "A work which can please in youth and age seems to fulfil (in logical language) the accidental definition of a classic"'.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Works of the The Rev. George Crabbe. In Eight Volumes
- Author
- CRABBE (George)
- Publisher
- London: John Murray 1823
- Publication year
- 1823
Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA
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Voewood Rare Books is a secondhand and Antiquarian Book business owned by Simon Finch. We operate from Voewood, a unique and extraordinary Arts and Crafts house described by Pevsner as "violently idiosyncratic". We operate online, through book fairs of which we do between five and eight a year, and Voewood Bookshop in Holt, Norfolk, U.K. Our shop is open from 10am until 5pm, Monday to Saturday. We are also open by appointment - please contact books@voewood.com or 01263 687113. Our website is being constantly enlarged and developed so do keep in touch with us, join our mailing list or visit (virtually or actually) our eclectic collection of unique and rare books. We are members of the ABA, ILAB and PBFA.…
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Simon Finch Rare Books Limited
Simon Finch Rare Books Limited (trading as Voewood Rare Book, s) The Coach House, Voewood, Cromer Road,
Holt, United Kingdom NR25 6QS
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