English Men of Letters

INDEX

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A

Aaron the Gipsy

;

Addison;

Adventures of Richard, The

;

Aldeburgh;

Allegro

(Milton);

Allington (Lincolnshire);

Ancient Mansion, The

;

Annals of the Parish, The

(Galt);

Annual Register, The

;

Austen, Jane;

Autobiography, Crabbe's;

B

Baillie, Agnes;

—Joanna;

Barnes, William;

Barrie, J.M.;

Barton, Bernard;

Basket-Woman, The

(Edgeworth);

Bath;

Beccles;

Belvoir Castle;

Biography, Crabbe's;

"Blaney";

Borough, The

;

Boswell;

Bowles, William Lisle;

Boys at School

;

Bristol;

Bunbury, Sir Henry;

Burke;

Burns;

Butler, Joseph;

Byron;

C

Campbell, Thomas;

Candidate, The

;

Canterbury Tales, The

(Chaucer);

Castle Rackrent

(Edgeworth);

Celtic Club;

Chatterton;

Chaucer;

Childe Harold

(Byron);

Church, English;

Churchill (poet);

Clarissa Harlowe

(Richardson);

"Clelia";

Clergy, non-residence of;

sketches of; 1, 2, 3, 4

Clifton;

Coleridge;

Confessions of an Opium Eater

, (De Quincey);

Confidant, The

;

Courthope, Mr.;

Cowley;

Cowper;

Crabbe, George, birth and family, history of;

early literary bent; 1

school days; 1

apprenticed to a surgeon; 1

life at Woodbridge; 1

falls in love; 1

first efforts in verse; 1

practises as a surgeon; 1

dangerous illness; 1

engagement to Miss Elmy; 1

seeks his fortune in London; 1

poverty in London; 1

keeps a diary; 1

unsuccessful attempts to sell his poems; 1

appeals to Edmund Burke; 1

Burke's help and patronage; 1

invited to Burke's country seat; 1, 2

publishes The Library; 1, 2

friendship with Burke; 1

second letter to Burke; 1

meetings with prominent men; 1

takes Holy Orders; 1

returns to Aldeburgh as curate; 1

coldly received by his fellow-townsmen; 1

becomes domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland; 1

life at Belvoir Castle; 1, 2, 3

The Village; 1

receives LL.B. degree; 1

presented to two livings; 1

marriage; 1

curate of Stathern; 1

his children; 1, 2, 3

village traditions concerning him; 1

The Newspaper; 1

life at Stathern; 1

moves to Muston; 1

revisits his native place; 1

goes to Parham; 1, 2

lives at Great Glemham Hall; 1

moves to Rendham; 1

ill-health; 1, 2

use of opium; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

returns to Muston; 1, 2

publishes a new volume of poems; 1

The Parish Register; 1

his great popularity; 1, 2

friendship with Sir Walter Scott; 1, 2

The Borough; 1

Tales; 1

visit to London; 1

returns to Muston; 1

death of his wife; 1

serious illness; 1

rector of Trowbridge; 1

departure from Muston; 1

intercourse with literary men in London; 1, 2

a member of the "Literary Society"; 1

receives £3000 from John Murray; 1

returns to Trowbridge; 1

Tales of the Hall; 1

visits Scott in Edinburgh; 1

Posthumous Poems; 1, 2, 3

last years at Trowbridge; 1

illness and death; 1

his religious temperament; 1, 2, 3

rusticity and lack of polish; 1, 2

indifference to art; 1

want of tact; 1

love of female society; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

acquaintance and sympathy with the poor; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

his preaching; 1

inequality of his work; 1, 2, 2, 2, 2

influence of preceding poets; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

his reputation at its height; 1, 2

knowledge of botany; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

his descriptions of nature; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

first great realist in verse; 1, 2, 2

fondness for verbal antithesis; 1, 2

his epigrams; 1

defective technique; 1

his influence on subsequent novelists; 1, 2

parodies of his style; 1, 2

his sense of humour; 1, 2, 3, 4

defects of his poetry; 1

his retentive memory; 1

his characters drawn from life; 1

his treatment of peasant life; 1

power of analysing character; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

choice of sordid and gloomy subjects; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

his lyric verses; 1

Edward FitzGerald's great admiration of his poetry; 1

contemporary and other estimates of his work; 1, 2, 3

revival of interest in him; 1, 2

Crabbe, George (father of the poet);

—Mrs. (mother);

—George (son);

—Mrs. (wife);

—John;

—Edmund;

—William;

—(brother);

—George (grandson);

—Caroline;

Critical Review

;

D

Daffodils, The

(Wordsworth);

Dejection, Ode to

(Coleridge);

Delay has Danger

;

De Quincey;

Deserted Village, The

(Goldsmith);

Diary, Crabbe's;

Dickens;

Dodsley (publisher);

Dora

(Tennyson);

Douglas, George;

Dunciad

(Pope);

Dunwich;

E

Edgeworth, Miss;

Edinburgh;

Edinburgh Annual Register

;

Edinburgh Review

;

Edward Shore

;

Elegant Extracts

(Vicesimus Knox);

Elegy in a Country Churchyard,

(Gray);

Ellen

;

Elmy, Miss Sarah.

See

Crabbe, Mrs.

(wife);

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

(Byron);

Enoch Arden

(Tennyson);

Erskine, William;

Essay on Man

(Pope);

Eustace Grey

. See

Sir Eustace Grey

Excursion, The

(Wordsworth);

F

Felon, the condemned, Description of;

Fielding;

Finden (artist);

FitzGerald, Edward;

—William Thomas;

Fox, Charles James;

—Henry Richard.

See

Holland, Lord

;

Frank Courtship, The

;

Fund, The Literary;

G

Gentleman Farmer, The

;

Gentleman's Magazine

;

George IV;

Glemham;

Glynn, Dr. Robert;

Goldsmith;

Gordon, Lord George;

Gore, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester);

Grantham;

Gray;

H

Hall of Justice, The

;

Hampstead;

Hanmer, Sir Thomas Memoir and Correspondence of

;

Hatchard, John (publisher);

Haunted House, The

(Hood);

Hazlitt;

Heart of Midlothian, The

(Scott);

Henry V

(Shakespeare);

"Hetty Sorrel";

Highlanders;

Hoare family;

Hogarth;

Holland, Lord;

House with the Green Shutters, The

(George Douglas);

Huchon, M. (University of Nancy);

Human Life

(Rogers);

Huntingdon, William;

Hutton, Rev. W.H.;

I

Inebriety

;

In Memoriam

(Tennyson);

"Isaac Ashford";

J

Jeffrey

(Edinburgh Review)

;

Johnson, Samuel;

Jordan, Mrs. (actress);

K

"Kailyard school";

Keats;

Kemble, Fanny;

—John;

L

Lady Barbara

;

Lady of the Lake, The

(Scott);

Lamb, Charles;

Lamia and other Poems

(Keats);

Lansdowne, Third Marquis of;

Langborne (painter);

Lay of the Last Minstrel, The

(Scott);

Lazy Lawrence

(Edgeworth);

Leadbeater, Mrs.;

Library, The

;

Literary Society, The;

Lockhart;

Longmans (publisher);

Lothian, Lord;

Lowell;

Lover's Journey, The

;

Lyrical Ballads

(Wordsworth);

M

Macaulay;

Maid's Story, The

;

Manners, Lord Robert;

Maud

(Tennyson);

Memoir of Crabbe.

See

Biography

Methodism;

Miller's daughter The

(Tennyson);

Minerva Press, The;

"Mira";

Mitford, Miss;

Montgomery, Robert;

Monthly Review

;

Moore, Thomas;

Murillo;

Murray, John (publisher);

Muston (Leicestershire);

N

New Monthly

;

Newman, Cardinal;

Newspaper, The

;

Nineteenth Century

;

North, Mr. Dudley;

—Lord;

Novels in Crabbe's day;

O

Omar Khayyam;

Opium eating;

Our Village

(Miss Mitford);

P

Pains of Sleep

(Coleridge);

Parents' Assistant, The

(Edgeworth);

Parham;

Parish Register, The

;

Parting Hour, The

;

Patron, The

;

Phillips (artist);

"Phoebe Dawson";

Pluralities;

Poacher, The

(Scott);

Poor, State relief of;

Pope;

Posthumous Poems

;

Pretyman, Bishop;

Priest, Description of Parish;

Progress of Error

(Cowper);

Pucklechurch;

Q

Quarterly Review

;

Queensberry, Duke of;

R

Raleigh;

Reform Bill Riots;

Rejected Addresses

(Smith);

Rendham;

Reynolds, Sir Joshua;

Richardson (novelist);

Ridout, Miss Charlotte;

Riots, Gordon;

Bristol; 1

Rogers, Samuel;

Rokeby

(Scott);

Romilly, Sir Samuel;

Ruskin;

Ruth

;

Rutland, Duke of;

S

Scott, Sir Walter;

Seasons, The

(Thomson);

Sellers, Miss Edith;

Shackleton, Edward;

Shakespeare;

Shelburne, Lord, lines to;

Shelley;

Siddons, Mrs;

Simple Susan

(Edgeworth);

Sir Eustace Grey

;

Sisters The

;

Smith, James (

Rejected, Addresses

);

Smollett;

Smugglers and Poachers

;

Solitary Reaper, The

(Wordsworth);

Southey;

Spenser;

Spirit of the Age

. (Hazlitt);

Stanfield, Clark on;

Stathern (Leictershire);

Stephen, Sir Leslie;

Stothard (painter);

Sweffling (Suffolk);

Swift;

Swinburne;

T

Table Talk

(Cowper);

Tales

;

Tales of the Hall

;

Tennyson;

—Frederick;

Thomson;

Thurlow, Lord;

Tomlins, Dr.

See

Pretyman

Tovell family;

Traveller, The

(Goldsmith);

Trollope, Anthony;

Trowbridge;

Turner, Rev. Richard;

V

Village, The

;

W

Walker, Frederick (artist);

Watson, Bishop;

Waverley

(Scott);

Wesley;

Wesleyan Movement;

Westall, Richard (artist);

Whitefield Revival;

Widow's Tale, The

;

Wife's Trial, The

(Lamb);

Wilkie;

Wolfe;

Woodbridge;

Wordsworth;

World of Dreams, The

;

Y

Young;