narcissas

Updated: May 11, 2025

And what Pope had done in his telling couplets for the man and woman of fashion the Chloes and Narcissas of his day Crabbe hoped that he might do for the poor and squalid inhabitants of the Suffolk seaport. Then, too, Thomson's "lovely young Lavinia," and Goldsmith's village-parson and poor widow gathering her cresses from the brook, had been before him and contributed their share of influence.

Alfred Ainger - English Men of Letters: Crabbe