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Campbell, Thomas Candidate, The Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer) Castle Rackrent (Edgeworth) Celtic Club Chatterton Chaucer Childe Harold (Byron) Church, English Churchill (poet) Clarissa Harlowe (Richardson) "Clelia" Clergy, non-residence of sketches of Clifton Coleridge Confessions of an Opium Eater, (De Quincey) Confidant, The Courthope, Mr. Cowley Cowper Crabbe, George, birth and family history of; early literary bent; school days; apprenticed to a surgeon; life at Woodbridge; falls in love; first efforts in verse; practises as a surgeon; dangerous illness; engagement to Miss Elmy; seeks his fortune in London; poverty in London; keeps a diary; unsuccessful attempts to sell his poems; appeals to Edmund Burke; Burke's help and patronage; invited to Burke's country seat; publishes The Library; friendship with Burke; second letter to Burke; meetings with prominent men; takes Holy Orders; returns to Aldeburgh as curate; coldly received by his fellow-townsmen; becomes domestic chaplain to the Duke of Rutland; life at Belvoir Castle; The Village; receives LL.B. degree; presented to two livings; marriage; curate of Stathern; his children; village traditions concerning him; The Newspaper; life at Stathern; moves to Muston; revisits his native place; goes to Parham; lives at Great Glemham Hall; moves to Rendham; ill-health; use of opium; returns to Muston; publishes a new volume of poems; The Parish Register; 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 £3000 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