In the present edition of Crabbe's Poems the general arrangement adopted is that of the chronological order of publication. The poem entitled _Midnight_ has been inserted at a conjectural date as belonging to the period of the Juvenile Poems (1772-1780); but all other poems contained in this edition which have hitherto remained unpublished will be printed after the published poems, in the sequence of their production so far as this is ascertainable. With the poems hitherto unpublished I have also been fortunate enough to obtain permission to include in a later volume, among other posthumously printed pieces, the _Two Poetical Epistles_ by Crabbe, first published, from a manuscript in the col…
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