George Crabbe: The Critical Heritage

by Pollard,Arthur; Pollard,Arthur

• ISBN13: 9780415134385
• ISBN10: 0415134382
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(30)
Note on the Text	31	(2)
The Candidate (1780)
Edmund Cartwright, notice in Monthly Review, September 1780	33	(1)
Notice in Critical Review, September 1780	34	(2)
Notice in Gentleman's Magazine, October 1780	36	(1)
The Library (1781)
Notice in Critical Review, August 1781	37	(1)
Notice in Gentleman's Magazine, October 1781	38	(1)
Edmund Cartwright, notice in Monthly Review, December 1781	39	(2)
The Village (1783)
Dr. Johnson, letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds, March 1783	41	(1)
Notice in Critical Review, July 1783	41	(1)
Edmund Cartwright, notice in Monthly Review, November 1783	42	(2)
Notice in Gentleman's Magazine, December 1783	44	(1)
The Newspaper (1785)
Notice in Critical Review, April 1785	45	(1)
Charles Burney, notice in Monthly Review, November 1785	46	(3)
Poems (1807)
Reviews in Gentleman's Magazine, November 1807, January 1808	49	(1)
Review in Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, December 1807	50	(3)
Review in Oxford Review, January 1808	53	(1)
Francis Jeffrey, review in Edinburgh Review, April 1808	54	(7)
Thomas Denman, review in Monthly Review, June 1808	61	(2)
Review in British Critic, June 1808	63	(1)
Review in Annual Review, 1808	64	(3)
Reviews in Universal Magazine, November 1808, February 1809	67	(7)
James Montgomery, review in Eclectic Review, January 1809	74	(6)
The Borough (1810)
Thomas Denman, review in Monthly Review, April 1810	80	(4)
Francis Jeffrey, review in Edinburgh Review, April 1810	84	(15)
James Montgomery, review in Eclectic Review, June 1810	99	(8)
Review in Critical Review, July 1810	107	(5)
Reviews in Monthly Mirror, August and October 1810	112	(5)
Robert Grant, review in Quarterly Review, November 1810	117	(17)
Review in British Critic, March 1811	134	(3)
Review in Christian Observer, August 1811	137	(10)
Tales (1812)
Crabbe, Preface to Tales	147	(7)
Review in British Review, October 1812	154	(7)
Review in Scourge, October 1812	161	(2)
Francis Jeffrey, review in Edinburgh Review, November 1812	163	(9)
Thomas Denman, review in Monthly Review, December 1812	172	(3)
Review in Critical Review, December 1812	175	(10)
Review in Eclectic Review, December 1812	185	(6)
Reviews in Universal Magazine, February and March 1813	191	(8)
Review in British Critic, April 1813	199	(3)
James Smith, `The Theatre', Rejected Addresses, 1812	202	(4)
T. N. Talfourd, on Crabbe as historian of the poor, 1815	206	(7)
Hazlitt, on `still life of tragedy' in Crabbe, 1818	213	(2)
R. H. Dana, replies to Hazlitt, 1819	215	(3)
Tales of the Hall (1819)
John Wilson, ('Christopher North'), review in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1819	218	(9)
Francis Jeffrey, review in Edinburgh Review, July 1819	227	(12)
Review in British Critic, September 1819	239	(8)
Review in Edinburgh Monthly Review, September 1819	247	(5)
Review in New Monthly Magazine, September 1819	252	(3)
Review in Christian Observer, October 1819	255	(17)
Review in Monthly Review, November 1819	272	(8)
Review in Eclectic Review, February 1820	280	(19)
Comments by Crabbe's contemporaries
Wordsworth 1808, 1815, 1819, 1825, 1831, 1834, 1840, 1843	290	(3)
Southey, September 1808, July 1819	293	(1)
Byron, 1809, 1817	294	(1)
Francis Horner, July 1810	295	(1)
Sir Samuel Romilly, 1810	295	(1)
Sir James Mackintosh, March 1812	295	(1)
Jane Austen, October and November 1813	295	(1)
Leigh Hunt, 1814	296	(1)
Carlyle, July 1816	296	(1)
C. H. Terrot, 1819	296	(1)
Croker, July 1819	297	(1)
Clare, 1820	297	(1)
Coleridge, March 1834	298	(1)
Crabb Robinson, December 1835	298	(1)
Landor, 1842	298	(1)
Hazlitt attacks Crabbe, May 1821	299	(8)
John Wilson reinforces the attack, November 1827	307	(7)
Poetical Works (with Life) (1834)
`Farewell, dear Crabbe!', 1834	314	(1)
J. G. Lockhart, reviews in Quarterly Review, January and October 1834	315	(6)
Review in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, April 1834	321	(8)
O. W. B. Peabody, review in North American Review, July 1834	329	(2)
Review in Monthly Review, September 1834	331	(2)
Review in Eclectic Review, October 1834	333	(2)
Review in Gentleman's Magazine, December 1834	335	(10)
William Empson, review in Edinburgh Review, January 1835	345	(9)
Review in New York Review, March 1837	354	(15)
Victorian views of Crabbe
John Sterling, September 1842	360	(1)
Ruskin, April 1849	360	(1)
Newman, 1852, 1873	361	(1)
D. G. Rossetti, January 1855	361	(1)
A. H. Clough, November 1856	361	(1)
George Eliot, March 1874	362	(1)
Fitzgerald, December 1876, February 1877, June and August 1879, May 1880	362	(6)
G. M. Hopkins, December 1881	368	(1)
Tennyson, 1883	368	(1)
An early American assessment, 1846	369	(7)
Gilfillan's, `spasmodic' criticism, March 1847	376	(13)
Another American view, 1850	389	(5)
W. C. Roscoe on Crabbe's standing in mid-century, January 1859	394	(21)
Fiction---in prose or verse? Saturday Review, September 1864	415	(6)
Fifty years after, February 1869	421	(2)
Crabbe and the eighteenth century: an American estimate, July 1872	423	(8)
A third-rate poet, 1873	431	(6)
Leslie Stephen on Crabbe, 1874	437	(14)
A last American judgment, 1880	451	(6)
Fitzgerald as Crabbe's champion, 1882	457	(8)
Patmore contrasts Crabbe and Shelley, February 1887	465	(2)
Final verdicts (I): Crabbe as a `Great Writer', 1888	467	(8)
Final verdicts (II): Saintsbury not so enthusiastic, 1890	475	(11)
Select Bibliography	486	(1)
Index	487