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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Just as Akenside deals in turn with the diverse aspects of the imagination , so Crabbe more modestly works his way through the various categories of books to be found in a library , commenting in a more or less witty style on each .
Just as Akenside deals in turn with the diverse aspects of the imagination , so Crabbe more modestly works his way through the various categories of books to be found in a library , commenting in a more or less witty style on each .
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During the 1790s , at Parham and especially at Great Glemham , storytelling increasingly became Crabbe's way of managing his imaginative and intellectual life . Like so many of Crabbe's homes , Great Glemham Hall no longer exists : it ...
During the 1790s , at Parham and especially at Great Glemham , storytelling increasingly became Crabbe's way of managing his imaginative and intellectual life . Like so many of Crabbe's homes , Great Glemham Hall no longer exists : it ...
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The character of Grimes , his obduracy and apparent want of feeling , his gloomy misanthropy , the progress of his madness , and the horrors of his imagination , I must leave to the judgement and observation of my readers .
The character of Grimes , his obduracy and apparent want of feeling , his gloomy misanthropy , the progress of his madness , and the horrors of his imagination , I must leave to the judgement and observation of my readers .
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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