The Village
poem by Crabbe
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discussed in biography
- In George Crabbe
…powers as a poet with The Village. Written in part as a protest against Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1770), which Crabbe thought too sentimental and idyllic, the poem was his attempt to portray realistically the misery and degradation of rural poverty. Crabbe made good use in The Village of…
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response to “The Deserted Village”
- In The Deserted Village
…country poor in his poem The Village (1783).
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