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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... called ' The Marsh Hill ' , brooding , as he went , over the humiliating necessities of his condition , and plucking every now and then , I have no doubt , the hundredth specimen of some common weed . He stopped opposite a shallow ...
... called ' The Marsh Hill ' , brooding , as he went , over the humiliating necessities of his condition , and plucking every now and then , I have no doubt , the hundredth specimen of some common weed . He stopped opposite a shallow ...
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... called ' industrial ' . Nearer home and still usefully alive , a more modest version of the clergyman - naturalist was William Mounsey , the curate of Bottesford , who assisted Crabbe in his Vale of Belvoir researches as well as ...
... called ' industrial ' . Nearer home and still usefully alive , a more modest version of the clergyman - naturalist was William Mounsey , the curate of Bottesford , who assisted Crabbe in his Vale of Belvoir researches as well as ...
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... called Stafford , has a guilty secret : in her youth she was seduced by a wicked Irish captain called Sedley - doubtless an oblique dig at the Restoration poet - by whom she had a child , now dead , in distant , sinful London . All this ...
... called Stafford , has a guilty secret : in her youth she was seduced by a wicked Irish captain called Sedley - doubtless an oblique dig at the Restoration poet - by whom she had a child , now dead , in distant , sinful London . All this ...
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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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