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