George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)

"George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)" by George Crabbe is a compilation of poems from the late 1700s to early 1800s that displays his early writings featuring nature, love, sadness, and what it means to be human as he went from young poems to poems for adults. The collection starts with poems called "Juvenilia" from 1772 to 1780 and touches on topics like loneliness, love, unhappiness, and the happiness and problems that come with human feelings; for example, he thinks about the calm found in nature in "Solitude," whereas he says life is a quick dream full of worry in "Midnight," with his very first writings giving an insightful and sometimes sad view of different emotions, setting the scene for exploring human feelings more in the rest of the collection.