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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... Tales of the Hall although the biographer son's condensed quotation rather disingenuously obscures the fact that the setting in the poem is a seagoing vessel - has the authentic ring of transmuted autobiography . The tale of Orlando and ...
... Tales of the Hall although the biographer son's condensed quotation rather disingenuously obscures the fact that the setting in the poem is a seagoing vessel - has the authentic ring of transmuted autobiography . The tale of Orlando and ...
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... Tales of the Hall . Ironically , in providing what Jeffrey and others had so long demanded , a collection of stories united by an overall narrative framework , Crabbe sacrificed much of the earlier tales ' enlivening directness . The ...
... Tales of the Hall . Ironically , in providing what Jeffrey and others had so long demanded , a collection of stories united by an overall narrative framework , Crabbe sacrificed much of the earlier tales ' enlivening directness . The ...
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... Tales of the Hall resemble those tales - within - a - tale which characteristically occur in Fielding's fiction ( and which impatient readers skim over ) . Their insistence on telling rather than showing is what may make them less than ...
... Tales of the Hall resemble those tales - within - a - tale which characteristically occur in Fielding's fiction ( and which impatient readers skim over ) . Their insistence on telling rather than showing is what may make them less than ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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