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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... evidently recalls his impressions ' ; 18 but , unlike ' Infancy – A Fragment ' , the poems Huchon cites at this point are by no means self- evidently autobiographical . In 1972 , Neville Blackburne reported , without citing any ...
... evidently recalls his impressions ' ; 18 but , unlike ' Infancy – A Fragment ' , the poems Huchon cites at this point are by no means self- evidently autobiographical . In 1972 , Neville Blackburne reported , without citing any ...
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... evidently , Crabbe's genuine enjoyment of the theatre was , perhaps disconcertingly for his later readers , very like that of the businessman who goes to a play after a busy day at the office . No sooner has he done with the stage than ...
... evidently , Crabbe's genuine enjoyment of the theatre was , perhaps disconcertingly for his later readers , very like that of the businessman who goes to a play after a busy day at the office . No sooner has he done with the stage than ...
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... evidently found the Scots strange , noting ' the singularity of appearance and the peculiarities of men , all gentlemen , but remote from our society - leaders of clans - joyous company ' . " Partly as a matter of strategy , he seems to ...
... evidently found the Scots strange , noting ' the singularity of appearance and the peculiarities of men , all gentlemen , but remote from our society - leaders of clans - joyous company ' . " Partly as a matter of strategy , he seems to ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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