The Newspaper

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The Newspaper is a poem by George Crabbe, published in 1785. It followed his more acclaimed work, The Village, which was written to realistically portray rural poverty rather than idealize it. Crabbe's The Newspaper is considered an unworthy successor to The Village. Following this publication, Crabbe did not release any new poetry for 22 years. Crabbe was an English writer known for his realistic details of everyday life in his poems and verse tales.1

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George Crabbe
…followed by an unworthy successor, The Newspaper (1785), and after that Crabbe published no poetry for the next 22 years. He did continue to write, contributing to John Nichols’s The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1795–1815) and other works of local history; he also wrote a treatise…
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…followed by an unworthy successor, The Newspaper (1785), and after that Crabbe published no poetry for the next 22 years. He did continue to write, contributing to John Nichols’s The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1795–1815) and other works of local history; he also wrote a treatise…
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