To the influence of Edward FitzGerald's fascinating personality this revival may be partly, but is not wholly, due.

It may be of the nature of a reaction against certain canons of taste too long blindly followed.
It may be that, like the Queen in _Hamlet_, we are beginning to crave for "more matter and less art"; or that, like the Lady of Shalott, we are growing "half-sick of shadows," and long for a closer touch with the real joys and sorrows of common people.

Whatever be the cause, there can be no reason to regret the fact, or to doubt that in these days of "art for art's sake," the influence of Crabbe's verse is at once of a bracing and a sobering kind.
INDEX A _Aaron the Gipsy_ Addison _Adventures of Richard, The_ Aldeburgh _Allegro_ (Milton) Allington (Lincolnshire) _Ancient Mansion, The_ _Annals of the Parish, The_ (Galt) _Annual Register, The_ Austen, Jane Autobiography, Crabbe's B Baillie, Agnes -- Joanna Barnes, William Barrie, J.M.
Barton, Bernard, _Basket-Woman, The_ (Edgeworth) Bath Beccles Belvoir Castle Biography, Crabbe's "Blaney" _Borough, The_ Boswell Bowles, William Lisle _Boys at School_ Bristol Bunbury, Sir Henry Burke Burns Butler, Joseph Byron C Campbell, Thomas _Candidate, The_ _Canterbury Tales, The_ (Chaucer) _Castle Rackrent_ (Edgeworth) Celtic Club Chatterton Chaucer _Childe Harold_ (Byron) Church, English Churchill (poet) _Clarissa Harlowe_ (Richardson) "Clelia" Clergy, non-residence of sketches of Clifton Coleridge _Confessions of an Opium Eater_, (De Quincey) _Confidant, The_ Courthope, Mr.
Cowley Cowper Crabbe, George, birth and family history of; early literary bent; school days; apprenticed to a surgeon; life at Woodbridge; falls in love; first efforts in verse; practises as a surgeon; dangerous illness; engagement to Miss Elmy; seeks his fortune in London; poverty in London; keeps a diary; unsuccessful attempts to sell his poems; appeals to Edmund Burke; Burke's help and patronage; invited to Burke's country seat; publishes _The Library_; friendship with Burke; second letter to Burke; meetings with prominent men; takes Holy Orders; returns to Aldeburgh as curate; coldly received by his fellow-townsmen; becomes domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland; life at Belvoir Castle; _The Village_; receives LL.B.

degree; presented to two livings; marriage; curate of Stathern; his children; village traditions concerning him; _The Newspaper_; life at Stathern; moves to Muston; revisits his native place; goes to Parham; lives at Great Glemham Hall; moves to Rendham; ill-health; use of opium; returns to Muston; publishes a new volume of poems; _The Parish Register_; his great popularity; friendship with Sir Walter Scott; _The Borough_; _Tales_; visit to London; returns to Muston; death of his wife; serious illness; rector of Trowbridge; departure from Muston; intercourse with literary men in London; a member of the "Literary Society"; receives L3000 from John Murray; returns to Trowbridge; _Tales of the Hall_; visits Scott in Edinburgh; _Posthumous Poems_; last years at Trowbridge; illness and death; his religious temperament; rusticity and lack of polish; indifference to art; want of tact; love of female society; acquaintance and sympathy with the poor; his preaching; inequality of his work; influence of preceding poets; his reputation at its height; knowledge of botany; his descriptions of nature; first great realist in verse; fondness for verbal antithesis; his epigrams; defective _technique_; his influence on subsequent novelists; parodies of his style; his sense of humour; defects of his poetry; his retentive memory; his characters drawn from life; his treatment of peasant life; power of analysing character; choice of sordid and gloomy subjects; his lyric verses; Edward FitzGerald's great admiration of his poetry; contemporary and other estimates of his work; revival of interest in him; Crabbe, George (father of the poet) -- Mrs.( mother) -- George (son) -- Mrs.( wife) -- John -- Edmund -- William -- (brother) -- George (grandson) -- Caroline _Critical Review_ D _Daffodils, The_ (Wordsworth) _Dejection, Ode to_ (Coleridge) _Delay has Danger_ De Quincey _Deserted Village, The_ (Goldsmith) Diary, Crabbe's Dickens Dodsley (publisher) _Dora_ (Tennyson) Douglas, George _Dunciad_ (Pope) Dunwich E Edgeworth, Miss Edinburgh _Edinburgh Annual Register_ _Edinburgh Review_ _Edward Shore_ _Elegant Extracts_ (Vicesimus Knox) _Elegy in a Country Churchyard,_ (Gray) _Ellen_ Elmy, Miss Sarah.

_See_ Crabbe, Mrs.( wife) _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (Byron) _Enoch Arden_ (Tennyson) Erskine, William _Essay on Man_ (Pope) _Excursion, The_ (Wordsworth) F Felon, the condemned, Description of Fielding Finden (artist) FitzGerald, Edward -- William Thomas Fox, Charles James -- Henry Richard.