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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... honest name Cervantes founded , Fielding raised his fame - Barber no more , a gay perfumer comes , On whose soft cheek his own cosmetic blooms ; Here he appears , each simple mind to move , And advertises beauty , grace , and love .
... honest name Cervantes founded , Fielding raised his fame - Barber no more , a gay perfumer comes , On whose soft cheek his own cosmetic blooms ; Here he appears , each simple mind to move , And advertises beauty , grace , and love .
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When he uses a local name , he is inclined to move it sideways . Isaac Ashford , ' a noble Peasant ' based on the former parish clerk at Great Glemham , is the subject of the most delicatedly restrained elegiac lines in the poem : I ...
When he uses a local name , he is inclined to move it sideways . Isaac Ashford , ' a noble Peasant ' based on the former parish clerk at Great Glemham , is the subject of the most delicatedly restrained elegiac lines in the poem : I ...
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... in his external life he had never felt more energetic ; as he had absolutely no intention of turning into a dried - up old clergyman like Casaubon , he had no need of a Dorothea to attend - still less to inhibit - his every move .
... in his external life he had never felt more energetic ; as he had absolutely no intention of turning into a dried - up old clergyman like Casaubon , he had no need of a Dorothea to attend - still less to inhibit - his every move .
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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