George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832The 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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31 This is so attractive an anecdote that one very much wants to believe it ; however , according to Crabbe himself , he only ' meant to serve in a shop ' : " The apothecary there was become infamous by his bad conduct , and his enemies ...
31 This is so attractive an anecdote that one very much wants to believe it ; however , according to Crabbe himself , he only ' meant to serve in a shop ' : " The apothecary there was become infamous by his bad conduct , and his enemies ...
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a become Crabbe's consuming interest , although he found time for a typically affectionate and good - humoured reference to Cartwright's godson : ' Edmund is , I think , of all rude rogues , the rudest .
a become Crabbe's consuming interest , although he found time for a typically affectionate and good - humoured reference to Cartwright's godson : ' Edmund is , I think , of all rude rogues , the rudest .
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... or too knowing ' damsel , the worry about ' simplicity ' becoming ' a little romantic ' , the unexplained apology ... in his dream of something very like a brothel all suggest that Crabbe had become entangled with a prostitute .
... or too knowing ' damsel , the worry about ' simplicity ' becoming ' a little romantic ' , the unexplained apology ... in his dream of something very like a brothel all suggest that Crabbe had become entangled with a prostitute .
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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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