: The Village and The Newspaper by Crabbe George - English poetry

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The Village Book 1 Book 2 The Newspaper

THE VILLAGE

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 the 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 Poor: their Apothecary--The dying Pauper--The Village Priest.

BOOK II--THE ARGUMENT.

There are found, amid the Evils of a laborious Life, some Views of Tranquillity and Happiness--The Repose and Pleasure of a Summer Sabbath: interrupted by Intoxication and Dispute--Village Detraction--Complaints of the 'Squire--The Evening Riots--Justice-- Reasons for this unpleasant View of Rustic Life: the Effect it should have upon the Lower Classes; and the Higher--These last have their peculiar Distresses: Exemplified in the Life and heroic Death of Lord Robert Manners--Concluding Address to His Grace the Duke of Rutland.

THE NEWSPAPER

E quibus, hi vacuas implent sermonibus aures: Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit, et auditis aliquid novus adjicit auctor: Illic Credulitas, illic temerarius Error, Vanaque Laetitia est, consternatique Timores, Seditioque repens, dubioque auctore Susurri. OVID, Metamorphoses

THE ARGUMENT

This not a Time favourable to Poetical Composition: and why-- Newspapers enemies to Literature, and their general Influence--Their Numbers--The Sunday Monitor--Their general Character--Their Effect upon Individuals--upon Society--in the Country--The Village Freeholder--What Kind of Composition a Newspaper is; and the Amusement it affords--Of what Parts it is chiefly composed--Articles of Intelligence: Advertisements: The Stage: Quacks: Puffing--The Correspondents to a Newspaper, political and poetical--Advice to the latter--Conclusion.

Footnotes:

Lord Robert Manners, killed in battle April 1782.

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