The Village (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Crabbe
- First Published: 1783
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Rural or country life, Villages, Manners or customs, Poverty or poor people, Reality, Death or dying
Critical Evaluation:
Although George Crabbe’s poem, THE VILLAGE, contains two books, the anthologists have been largely justified in printing Book I as a separate poem. This book is in part a bitter answer to Oliver Goldsmith’s sentimental picture of rural life in THE DESERTED VILLAGE: “I paint the cot/ As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not.” Book II continues the theme of the first book for over a hundred lines, then turns into a memorial eulogy of Lord Robert Manners, the brother of Crabbe’s patron, the Duke of Rutland.
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