George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832Pimlico, 2004 - 373 Seiten The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life. This new biography charts Crabbe’s progress from an impoverished provincial childhood to the excitement and sophistication of late 18th-century London; through his career as a ducal chaplain and country parson whose addictions included theater-going and opium; to his final years when, as a rector, he traveled widely, met major literary figures, and fell in love with some remarkable young women. |
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... Muston and Allington , was one - that he required ' from every incumbent in his diocese who did not reside upon his benefice , the reasons of his non - residence in writing'.9 Crabbe , of course , had excellent reasons for wishing to ...
... Muston and Allington , was one - that he required ' from every incumbent in his diocese who did not reside upon his benefice , the reasons of his non - residence in writing'.9 Crabbe , of course , had excellent reasons for wishing to ...
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... Muston in July 1802 , for the last time before his permanent return there , Crabbe carefully arranged that he and his seventeen - year - old elder son should pass through Cambridge during Commencement week . While he obviously wanted ...
... Muston in July 1802 , for the last time before his permanent return there , Crabbe carefully arranged that he and his seventeen - year - old elder son should pass through Cambridge during Commencement week . While he obviously wanted ...
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... Muston , to which Crabbe had only recently returned . For the most part this is a ludicrous enterprise , unassisted by Evans's idiosyncratic and often ungrammatical prose , and yet in one respect it is both interesting and plausible ...
... Muston , to which Crabbe had only recently returned . For the most part this is a ludicrous enterprise , unassisted by Evans's idiosyncratic and often ungrammatical prose , and yet in one respect it is both interesting and plausible ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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