127 Belvoir Castle: A poem written by the Rev. George Crabbe at the request of M. I. Rutland

‘George Crabbe and the Place of Amusement’

“…36 The latter includes an architectural description of the chapel, an inventory of the duke's pictures, and Crabbe's observations of the trees and gardens which would provide the setting for Peter's afternoon nap at Silford (649-64). 37 In contrast to the impulse of Peter's 'Infant-Muse', the essay announces its concern with 'accuracy' and seeks to correct a 'very curious local and historical description' of Belvoir written in verse in 1722 by the antiquarian Francis Peck, in which 'imagination appears to have introduced many more [prospects] than the most accurate eye could take in'. 38 Crabbe's acerbic comments about Peck's poem ('whatever may be thought of the poetry') suggest his antiquarian scrupulosity.…”