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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As his son very judiciously puts it , I should be inclined to say , that those usually considered as the least inviting had the highest attractions for him . In botany , grasses , the most useful , but the least ornamental , were his ...
As his son very judiciously puts it , I should be inclined to say , that those usually considered as the least inviting had the highest attractions for him . In botany , grasses , the most useful , but the least ornamental , were his ...
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His point , nevertheless , is one which directs us towards the less arbitrary tales : those in which there seems to be at least the potential for things to turn out unexpectedly , as is usually the case with a novel .
His point , nevertheless , is one which directs us towards the less arbitrary tales : those in which there seems to be at least the potential for things to turn out unexpectedly , as is usually the case with a novel .
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... The first time I met Crabbe was at Holland House , where he and Tom Moore and myself lounged the better part of a morning about the park and library ; and I can answer for one of the party at least being very much pleased with it .
... The first time I met Crabbe was at Holland House , where he and Tom Moore and myself lounged the better part of a morning about the park and library ; and I can answer for one of the party at least being very much pleased with it .
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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