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Title: The poets and poetry of England, in the nineteenth century
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 ed
Subjects: English poetry Authors, English
Publisher: Philadelphia, H. C. Baird
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e-Darmstadt 486 P. J. BAILEY 487 Festus describes bis Friend 487 Angela 488 Calmness of the Sublime 488 Faith 489 Great Thoughts 489 A Letter 489 Truth and Sorrow 4S9 The Ends of Life 489 The Poet 489 HENRY ALFORD 490 A Churchyard Colloqny 490 Academe 491 A Memory 491 A Funeral 491 The Master is come, and calleth for the^ 491 Beauty of Nature 491 A Spiritual and well-ordered Mind 492 Morning Hymn for All-Saints Day 492 A Doubt 492 ELIZA COOK 493 The Mourners 493 The Wreaths 494 He led her to the altar 494 A Love Song 494 The Free 495 The Old Arm-chair 495 My Grave 495 Theres a star in the west 496 Mourn not the dead 496 The loved one was not there 496 The Quiet Eye 496 Song of the Hempseed 497 Washington 498 Our Native Song 498 B. SIMMONS 499 The Disinterment 499 View on the Hudson SCO Death-chant for the Sultan Mabmond 501 F. W. FABER 602 Kings Bridge 602 Childhood 503 The Glimpse 503 The Perplexity 603 To a Little Boy 504 The After-State 504 The Wheels 504 The Signs of the Times 504
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GEORGE CRABBE This poet was born on the twenty-fourth ofDecember, 1754, at Aldborough, in Suffolk,where his father and grandfather were officersof the customs. At the school where he re-ceived his education he gained a prize for oneof his poems ; and on leaving it he became anapprentice to a surgeon and apothecary in hisnative village. On the completion of his ap-prenticeship, abandoning all hope of successin his profession, he went to London to com-mence a life of authorship. Unknown andunfriended, he endeavoured in vain to inducethe booksellers to publish his writings. Atlength, in 1780, two years after his arrival inthe great metropolis, he ventured to print athis own expense a poem entitled The Can-didate, which was favourably received. Hewas soon after introduced to Edmund Burke,who became his friend and patron, and pre-sented him to Fox and other eminent con-temporaries. In 1781 he published TheLibrary, and was ordained a deacon. In thefollowing year he became curate of Ald-boro

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