his children;
village traditions concerning him;
The Newspaper;
life at Stathern;
moves to Muston;
revisits his native place;
goes to Parham;
lives at Great Glemham Hall;
moves to Rendham;
ill-health;
use of opium;
returns to Muston;
publishes a new volume of poems;
The Parish Register;
his great popularity;
friendship with Sir Walter Scott;
The Borough;
Tales;
visit to London;
returns to Muston;
death of his wife;
serious illness;
rector of Trowbridge;
departure from Muston;
intercourse with literary men in London;
a member of the “Literary Society”;
receives L3000 from John Murray;
returns to Trowbridge;
Tales of the Hall;
visits Scott in Edinburgh;
Posthumous Poems;
last years at Trowbridge;
illness and death;
his religious temperament;
rusticity and lack of polish;
indifference to art;
want of tact;
love of female society;
acquaintance and sympathy with the poor;
his preaching;
inequality of his work;
influence of preceding poets;
his reputation at its height;
knowledge of botany;
his descriptions of nature;
first great realist in verse;
fondness for verbal antithesis;
his epigrams;
defective technique;
his influence on subsequent novelists;
parodies of his style;
his sense of humour;
defects of his poetry;
his retentive memory;
his characters drawn from life;
his treatment of peasant life;
power of analysing character;
choice of sordid and gloomy subjects;
his lyric verses;
Edward FitzGerald’s great admiration of his poetry;
contemporary and other estimates of his work;
revival of interest in him;
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) 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