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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... effect : the second woman he attended at childbirth died within a month . This event was far from uncommon , and the cause may have been ill luck rather than incompetence , but the effect was inevitably to diminish both his slender ...
... effect : the second woman he attended at childbirth died within a month . This event was far from uncommon , and the cause may have been ill luck rather than incompetence , but the effect was inevitably to diminish both his slender ...
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... effect.30 was The Critical Review , also in September , was much more savage in its attack . It suggested that the anonymous poet was suffering from a serious , though not incurable , illness : ' Temperance in this , as in almost every ...
... effect.30 was The Critical Review , also in September , was much more savage in its attack . It suggested that the anonymous poet was suffering from a serious , though not incurable , illness : ' Temperance in this , as in almost every ...
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... effect of his commencement or , more likely , resumption of opium - taking in 1790 on his writing may not have been significant . Hayter is surely right to insist that the absence of any publication until his 1807 collection cannot be ...
... effect of his commencement or , more likely , resumption of opium - taking in 1790 on his writing may not have been significant . Hayter is surely right to insist that the absence of any publication until his 1807 collection cannot be ...
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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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