art for art's sake," the influence of Crabbe's verse is at once of a
bracing and a sobering kind.

INDEX

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
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;
school days;
apprenticed to a surgeon;
life at Woodbridge;
falls in love;
first efforts in verse;
practises as a surgeon;
dangerous illness;
engagement to Miss Elmy;
seeks his fortune in London;
poverty in London;
keeps a diary;
unsuccessful attempts to sell his poems;
appeals to Edmund Burke;
Burke's help and patronage;
invited to Burke's country seat;
publishes _The Library_;
friendship with Burke;
second letter to Burke;
meetings with prominent men;
takes Holy Orders;
returns to Aldeburgh as curate;
coldly received by his fellow-townsmen;
becomes domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland;
life at Belvoir Castle;
_The Village_;
receives LL.B. degree;
presented to two livings;
marriage;
curate of Stathern;
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_;