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Part 1 THE CANDIDATE A Poetical Epistle to the Authors of the Monthly Review; Chapter 1 I. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned notice, Monthly Review; Chapter 2 2. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 3 3. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine; Part 2 THE LIBRARY; Chapter 4 4. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 5 5. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine; Chapter 6 6. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned notice Monthly Review; Part 3 THE VILLAGE; Chapter 7 7. Dr Johnson, letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds; Chapter 8 8. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 9 9. Edmund Cartwright, unsigned notice,Monthly Review; Chapter 10 10. Unsigned notice, Gentleman's Magazine; Part 4 THE NEWSPAPER; Chapter 11 II. Unsigned notice, Critical Review; Chapter 12 12. Charles Burney, unsigned notice, Monthly Review; Part 5 POEMS, 1807; Chapter 13 13. Unsigned reviews, Gentleman's Magazine; Chapter 14 14. Unsigned review, Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Chapter 15 15. Unsigned review, Oxford Review; Chapter 16 16. Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 17 17. Thomas Denman, unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 18 18. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 19 19. Unsigned review, Annual Review; Chapter 20 20. Unsigned reviews, Universal Magazine; Chapter 21 21. James Montgomery, unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Part 6 THE BOROUGH; Chapter 22 Thomas Denman, unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 23 23. Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 24 24. James Montgomery, unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 25 25. Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 26 26. Unsigned reviews, Monthly Mirror; Chapter 27 27. Robert Grant, unsigned review, Quarterly Review; Chapter 28 28. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 29 29. Unsigned review, Christian Observer; Part 7 TALES; Chapter 30 30. Crabbe, Preface to Tales; Chapter 31 31. Unsigned review, British Review; Chapter 32 32. Unsigned review, Scourge; Chapter 33 Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 34 34. Thomas Denman, unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 35 35. Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 36 36. Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 37 x37. Unsigned reviews, Universal Magazine; Chapter 38 38. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 39 39. James Smith,'The Theatre', Rejected Addresses; Chapter 40 T. N. Talfourd on Crabbe as historian ofthe poor; Chapter 41 Hazlitt on sti1l 1ife of tragedy' in Crabbe; Chapter 42 R. H. Dana replies to Hazlitt; Part 8 TALES OF THE HALL; Chapter 43 43. John Wilson ('Christopher North'), unsigned review, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 44 44. Francis Jeffrey, unsigned review,Edinburgh Review; Chapter 45 45. Unsigned review, British Critic; Chapter 46 46. Unsigned review, Edinbugh Monthly Review; Chapter 47 47. Unsigned review, New Monthly Magazine; Chapter 48 48. Unsigned review, Christian Observer; Chapter 49 49. Unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 50 50. Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 51 51. Comments by Crabbe's contemporaries; Chapter 52 52. Hazlitt attacks Crabbe; Chapter 53 53. John Wilson reinforces the attack; Part 9 POETICAL WORKS (WITH LIFE); Chapter 54 54 'Farewell, dear Crabbe!'; Chapter 55 55. J. G. Lockhart, unsigned reviews, Quarter Review; Chapter 56 56. Unsigned review, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine; Chapter 57 57. O. W. B. Peabody,unsigned review,North American Review; Chapter 58 58. Unsigned review, Monthly Review; Chapter 59 59. Unsigned review, Eclectic Review; Chapter 60 60. Unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine; Chapter 61 61. William Empson, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review; Chapter 62 62. Unsigned review, New York Review; Chapter 63 63. Victorian views of Crabbe; Chapter 64 64. An early American assessment; Chapter 65 65. Gilfillan's 'spasmodic' criticism; Chapter 66 66. Another American view; Chapter 67 67. W. C. Roscoe on Crabbe's standing in mid-century; Chapter 68 68. Fiction-in prose or verse?; Chapter 69 69. Fifty years after; Chapter 70 70. Crabbe and the eighteenth century: an American estimate; Chapter 71 71. A third-rate poet; Chapter 72 71. A third-rate poet; Chapter 73 73. A last American judgment; Chapter 74 74. FitzGerald as Crabbe's Champion; Chapter 75 75. Patmore contrasts Crabbe and Shelley; Chapter 76 76. Final verdicts (1): Crabbe as a 'Great Writer'; Chapter 77 77. Final verdicts (II): Saintsbury not so enthusiastic;