The Village and The Newspaper by George Crabbe (1754-1832)




Contents
The Village
Book 1
Book 2
The Newspaper




THE VILLAGE




BOOK I.--THE ARGUMENT.



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.