George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)

BOOK I.

The Subject proposed--Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry--A Tract of Country near the Coast described--An impoverished Borough--Smugglers and their Assistants--Rude Manners of the Inhabitants--Ruinous Effects of a high Tide--The Village Life more generally considered: Evils of it--The youthful Labourer--The old Man: his Soliloquy--The Parish Workhouse: its Inhabitants--The sick Po...