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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... father and son , could only hope that the adventure would prove worthwhile . Mr Smith of Wickhambrook was , as Crabbe later wrote to Burke , ' poor and had little business but the premium he demanded was small : I continued two years ...
... father and son , could only hope that the adventure would prove worthwhile . Mr Smith of Wickhambrook was , as Crabbe later wrote to Burke , ' poor and had little business but the premium he demanded was small : I continued two years ...
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... father - and despite his father's delicately withdrawing with Mrs Crabbe as soon as the company threatened to become bawdy the biographer son is actually a bit of a prig ; and that is less a criticism of him than another instance of a ...
... father - and despite his father's delicately withdrawing with Mrs Crabbe as soon as the company threatened to become bawdy the biographer son is actually a bit of a prig ; and that is less a criticism of him than another instance of a ...
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... father together with ' a thin pale boy in either hand ' . The devastating image , near the very end of the poem , in which the water turns to a mixture of blood and fire which his father flings ( ' a red - hot liquor ' ) in his face ...
... father together with ' a thin pale boy in either hand ' . The devastating image , near the very end of the poem , in which the water turns to a mixture of blood and fire which his father flings ( ' a red - hot liquor ' ) in his face ...
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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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