Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Million Book Project) _CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS_ Poems by George Crabbe In Three Volumes GEORGE CRABBE Born, 1754 Died, 1832 _GEORGE CRABBE_ POEMS EDITED BY ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, Litt.D., Hon. LL.D., F.B.A. Master of Peterhouse [Illustration] Volume III CAMBRIDGE: at the University Press 1907 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE C. F. CLAY, MANAGER. =London=: FETTER LANE, E.C. =Glasgow=: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. [Illustration] =Leipzig=: F. A. BROCKHAUS. =New York=: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS. =Bombay and Calcutta=: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. [_All Rights reserved_] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. The very miscellaneous nature of the contents of this third and last volume of the present edition of Crabbe’s _Poems_ obliges me to trouble the reader with a rather lengthy series of prefatory remarks. Before, however, entering on these, I should like to supplement what was said in the Preface to Vol. 1 with regard to the source of the earliest among the _Juvenilia_ there printed. Since writing that Preface I have at last had an opportunity of examining the whole set of Vols. I-VI (for the years 1770–5) of the elusive _Lady’s Magazine_, of which Vol. I was published by Robinson and Roberts, and the remaining five volumes by Robinson. Curiously enough, the 1773 volume of this _Magazine_ contains, in the February number, a long piece of verse, apparently a prize poem, entitled _An Essay on Hope_; but the six lines quoted by the younger Crabbe are not to be found in this poem any more than in that printed in the October number of the 1772 volume of the _Magazine_. By another coincidence, a poem called _The Bee_, signed “Louisa Broughton,” appears in the April number of the same _Magazine_ for 1774. I may add, that the June number of the same volume contains a poem, in Shenstone’s manner, addressed “To Miss E——r M——,” and signed “G. C., Cambridge, May 2, 1774.” It has an apologetic introductory note, which _might have been_ written by Crabbe.