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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Accordingly , he despatched his reply to Mrs Brooke , Coventry Street , Haymarket , whose address was unmistakably in that terrifying West End : ' A person having the advantage of a grammatical education , and who supposes himself ...
Accordingly , he despatched his reply to Mrs Brooke , Coventry Street , Haymarket , whose address was unmistakably in that terrifying West End : ' A person having the advantage of a grammatical education , and who supposes himself ...
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Yet within forty lines he has entered the poem as an impatiently disputatious first person : ' I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms / For him that grazes or for him that farms ... ' Such privileged persons are mentioned ...
Yet within forty lines he has entered the poem as an impatiently disputatious first person : ' I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms / For him that grazes or for him that farms ... ' Such privileged persons are mentioned ...
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It does not occur to him that he is at least as eminent a person as Rogers : I will breakfast with you in the morning , or on Tuesday , or on both : one principal purpose of my coming to town again was the pleasure you held up to me ...
It does not occur to him that he is at least as eminent a person as Rogers : I will breakfast with you in the morning , or on Tuesday , or on both : one principal purpose of my coming to town again was the pleasure you held up to me ...
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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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