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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... later date a bookish anecdote , a striking sermon – and tries out literary stances and strategies ; so a loss in accuracy is balanced by a steady increase in Crabbe's seriousness as a writer . That he viewed his journal critically , as ...
... later date a bookish anecdote , a striking sermon – and tries out literary stances and strategies ; so a loss in accuracy is balanced by a steady increase in Crabbe's seriousness as a writer . That he viewed his journal critically , as ...
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... later years of their marriage . Yet these insistent lines on the subject from The Library pre - date his ordination by months and his marriage by years . Moreover , they conclude by comparing books to ' Mild opiates ' for ' the heart ...
... later years of their marriage . Yet these insistent lines on the subject from The Library pre - date his ordination by months and his marriage by years . Moreover , they conclude by comparing books to ' Mild opiates ' for ' the heart ...
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... later years together . But we should not treat with outraged astonishment ( as Huchon and Blackburne both do ) Samuel Rogers's later remark : ' Crabbe was nearly ruined by grief and vexation at the conduct of his wife for about seven ...
... later years together . But we should not treat with outraged astonishment ( as Huchon and Blackburne both do ) Samuel Rogers's later remark : ' Crabbe was nearly ruined by grief and vexation at the conduct of his wife for about seven ...
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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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