Excerpt from Poems, Vol. 1 of 3 Review for September, 1780; but no variants have been found in these. The subsequent poems contained in the present volume are all printed from the edition of 182 3, the last edition published in England in the poet's lifetime. The Variants enumerated at the close of this volume are in each case the readings of the first editions of the several poems, viz., The Library, 1781, The Village, 1783, The Newspaper, 178 5, The Parish Register Ede, 1807, and The Borough, 1810. The address To the Reader prefixed to The Newspaper, which does not appear in the edition of 182 3, has been restored from that of 1785, as it appears in the younger Crabbe's edition of 1834. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.